Word: pols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...epidemic of violence poses a tough question: Is David Dinkins up to the job? -- A legendary Florida pol runs for Governor with a quaintly populist message. -- Marion Barry's trial brings a divided verdict...
...spoke last week, he seemed a little tired and rambling. It had after all been an exhausting 77-year circuit from the room where he was born to this ritual of fulfillment. But even in the mellowness of the moment, Nixon still gave off emanations of the film-noir pol that a part of him has always played, the shadow of that something in his character that is remorseless and bruised and unforgetting...
...measure of the skillful diplomat Kohl, 60, has become that he quickly praised Bush for all his efforts, saying, "Our American friends can rely on it that we are going this way in close cooperation and partnership with them." The German leader has always been the consummate local pol, more at ease hoisting a glass in the local wine cellar than sitting in chandeliered rooms stiffly exchanging diplomatic niceties with foreign leaders. But over the past year, as Kohl realized that he had the historic opportunity to bring his country together again, he rose to the challenge better than many...
...Vietnam's 200,000 combat troops returned home -- though some have apparently returned to bolster the faltering Cambodian army. As for Goal No. 2, it never made sense for Washington to support a three-part coalition that included the Khmer Rouge while decrying the possible return to power of Pol Pot's forces. With last week's unequivocal shift away from the Khmer Rouge, the U.S. Administration finally brought strategy and policy into line on Goal No. 2, paving the way for movement on Goal...
Like a media-savvy pol -- and a single-minded revolutionary -- Mandela repeated at every opportunity his simple line that because apartheid is still alive and well, it is too soon to reward Pretoria for the reforms De Klerk has made, some of which are more cosmetic than real. Mandela can also hope to return home with several million dollars in new contributions to the A.N.C. In New York a $2,500-a-ticket fund raiser hosted by Eddie Murphy, Spike Lee and Robert De Niro aimed to raise $500,000 from a celebrity crowd that included Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward...