Word: rasputin
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They finally got Rasputin, didn't they?" So chortled I longtime Reagan Aide Lyn Nofziger over the sudden sacking of Campaign Manager John Sears, who only last August had pushed Nofziger out. The departure of the superstrategist who ran the 1976 campaign brings a decisive shift in the Reagan candidacy: the return to power of the highly conservative California old guard that largely advised Reagan until Sears took over and shouldered them aside in recent months. Indeed, some of the most intriguing maneuverings of the 1980 presidential race have taken place within the Reagan camp-a struggle, it might...
...people with talent in that campaign. Look at how Sears bagged us in the debate. Nobody else could have done it." With 47 Republican primaries and caucuses to go, Reagan now has to rely on a new team to undertake the services once performed by "Rasputin...
...title of Man of the Year for that diabolical Iranian Rasputin is insane...
...Carter Administration's effort to ease the nation into a short and shallow business downturn in order to slow inflation increasingly resembles the attempts in 1916 by Russian noblemen to kill Rasputin: they fed Tsarina Alexandra's mystic poisoned teacakes and wine, then shot him three times, and finally had to drown him in St. Petersburg's icy Neva River. Despite record-high interest rates, the long awaited recession still refuses to materialize definitively...
...tenuous basis for these charges is the historical fact that Rasputin, for a Russian of his time, was unusually friendly to Jews. Considering his besmirched reputation in other respects, Rasputin would appear to be an unlikely hero to Soviet human rights activists. But at least one celebrated dissident has taken up his cause. Andrei Amalrik told TIME last week that he was writing a book on Rasputin that would show the monk had a good influence on Tsar Nicholas II. "Rasputin was a very simple person with very good ideas," said the exiled Russian writer, who is doing research...