Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TIME Washington correspondents who reported this week's cover stories did what almost every American near an electrical outlet tried to do last week: they watched Oliver North testify on Capitol Hill. But the correspondents attended the sessions in person and then called sources for reaction. "More legwork is required in reporting major scandals than in any other type of reporting," says Congressional Correspondent Hays Gorey, who recalls wearing out a few pairs of shoes covering Watergate. "Sources are so few and reporters so many that dozens of calls are never returned. You have to track sources to restaurants...
Although the capital was awash with expressions of support for Oliver North, reaction to the Marine lieutenant colonel among the public at large was more qualified. In a poll taken for TIME last Thursday evening by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman,* 60% of those surveyed call themselves "sympathetic" to % North, but no more than 51% of the respondents judge North to be totally truthful...
...race that has been perpetually oppressed from slavery until now, it is the Negro race." When the Congolese lawyer said he had shaken Barbie's hand as a mark of respect when he met him, a murmur ran through the courtroom. M'Bemba snapped back, "I can understand your reaction. You have not lived what I have lived...
...bombshell caught nearly everyone by surprise. The government- controlle d television network, which was broadcasting a cooking show at the time, hastily cut away to air the last part of the 22-minute speech. Journalists who called Chun's office seeking reaction found they had to fill in the presidential press secretary about what had just happened before the spokesman could respond. Newspapers rushed extra editions into print...
...Reaction to Chun's about-face ranged from unreserved jubilance to dark skepticism. "This is the year of the political miracle," said Kim Young Sam, leader of the Reunification Democratic Party, the principal opposition group. "I think he has given us all that we wanted." The other major opposition leader, Kim Dae Jung, was more reserved. Having spent most of the past seven years in prison, under house arrest or in exile, Kim would go no further than to declare that "people's power has brought this about." Park Chan Jong, chairman of the main opposition party's policy committee...