Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fried, Carter professor of general jurisprudence at Harvard Law School, served as solicitor general in the Reagan administration from 1985 to 1989. A Cambridge resident, he was an active and vocal opponent of rent control...
...whose constitutional challenge failed last July, expressed dissatisfaction with Fried's possible nomination. "When it comes to rent control many people are past reason," Ash said. "That he was in the Reagan administrator and was solicitor general of the U.S. is really scary...
...understand his change." Alexander today describes himself as pro-life -- with a tortured caveat about "not wanting the government to subsidize, encourage or prohibit" abortion. When I asked if he would permit military personnel to get abortions at government hospitals (as Clinton allows, in a reversal of the Reagan-Bush policies), Alexander said, "What are you talking about?" Since then, one Alexander aide has told me the candidate would restore the old prohibition; a second has said Alexander would continue Clinton's order; and a third has confessed that "our position needs work...
Throughout the 1980s, Reagan and Bush hailed Guatemala's military as resistors of foreign-sponsored communist aggression, a blatant lie. The guerrillas were neither Soviet not Cuban proxies and probably were never more than 2,000 strong. The military was mainly a threat to Guatemala...
...turmoil grew worse when former California Supreme Court Judge William Clark, the leader of the boardroom putsch that removed Agee six weeks ago, resigned last week as acting chairman to return to his consulting business and his horse ranch in California. Clark, who once served as Ronald Reagan's National Security Adviser, said he had achieved his goals of exposing the company's financial woes and putting in place a new management team. Also departing was Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser, who, like Clark, became a director just last year. Remaining members of the company's beleaguered...