Word: pow
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While holding firm in his political stance, Alliger emphasizes that dance can be a completely unobtrusive form of activism. This past Columbus Day, for example, Dance Umbrella staged a two-day "Pow-wow" at the Hatch Shell in Boston. This festival brought together a variety of Native American and Latin music, dance, crafts, storytelling and theater to provide a different perspective of the 500th anniversary of the "discovery" of America. "This event was meant to be educational, not confrontational," claims Alliger. "We were celebrating 500 years of survival of the Native American people...
WHEN ROSS PEROT INTRODUCED HIS VICE-PRESIdential candidate last week, he called him a "hero's hero" and "a man of steel." James Stockdale, 68, a highly decorated former Navy fighter pilot and POW, fits those descriptions. But it remains to be seen whether the retired vice admiral is too prickly and independent to weather the give-and-take of a presidential campaign any more gracefully than Perot...
Swindle, a friend of the candidate's since 1973 and the conduit for Perot's orders to the field, is in many ways a perfect Perot operative: competent, self-effacing, obedient and intensely loyal. A former fighter pilot and POW like Stockdale, who ran Reagan's 1980 California campaign, Swindle served as an Assistant Secretary of Commerce...
...radio are watched and listened to by more than 4 million people. A King interview nudged Ross Perot into the presidential arena. Another caused Dan Quayle to ruminate on what he might do if his daughter decided to have an abortion. Last week King questioned Henry Kissinger on the POW-MIA issue, while Perot was dickering with King's producers about using the show to announce whether he would re-enter the race...
...greatest ironies of the war unfolded only last week, when Henry Kissinger appeared before the Senate Select Committee on POW and MIA Affairs. Not only is Kissinger back in the news--his grumpy, arrogant mug at the top of The New York Times--but it was a soldier from Vietnam who ordered him there...