Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democrats survive the social-issues pounding and make the economy issue stick?" That is probably the No. 1 question all over the country, but it is especially pointed in Texas. The state is highly receptive to Bush's conservative appeals on such issues as abortion, gun control, prison furloughs and the Pledge of Allegiance; in Texas rifle racks can rank with the flag as badges of honor. "If we allow that to be the agenda, we will get beat," concedes Democratic Strategist Greg Hartman...
...them transplants from the Southern states, who register 3 to 2 Democratic but voted heavily for Reagan in 1980 and 1984. Says Bill Lacy, head of Bush's California campaign: "The people in the Central Valley can be appealed to like Southern conservatives, on crime, the death penalty, prison furloughs, gun control." Bush will also stress Dukakis' endorsement of a 1985 grape boycott called by United Farm Workers Leader Cesar Chavez, a stand popular with Latino farmhands, who mostly do not vote, but anathema to farm owners and their suppliers...
...front page and their successes on the sports page changed to a laugh last week when, in the same edition, several football agents, two boxers and a hockey player extended the fields of play to a grand jury room, an all-night boutique in Harlem and a prison cell...
...issues bandied about during presidential campaigns typically have about as much to do with running the country as elephants and donkeys do with party platforms. Prison furloughs, school prayer and the Indiana National Guard are not matters that often cross a President's desk. But to campaign consultants, they are "hot buttons," the so-called valence issues that help voters define a candidate's character and values. So last week, while the national debt was topping $2.5 trillion, while a growing army of beggars wandered urban streets and America's overburdened school systems prepared for the return of classes...
...stars of death stood over us./ And Russia, guiltless, beloved, writhed/ under the crunch of bloodstained boots,/ under the wheels of Black Marias." So wrote Anna Akhmatova, perhaps Russia's finest woman poet, in Requiem, a moving testimony to those who kept vigils outside prison gates for loved ones swept away in the Stalinist reign of terror. Written between 1935 and 1940, the poem was not officially published in full until last year...