Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should take the lead in this campaign, but it probably won't as long as Bush has anything to say about it. He cravenly repudiated his earlier championship of serious family planning when he went to work for Ronald Reagan. As President, Bush has kept in place his predecessor's withdrawal of U.S. payments to the U.N. Fund for Population Activities and International Planned Parenthood on the specious grounds that they support abortion...
...knew how to set them free. Jimmy Carter publicly displayed his anguish about the Americans seized in the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979, and his failure to get them out helped make him a one-term President. Ronald Reagan tried to strike secret deals with so-called moderates in Iran to free the captives in Lebanon and almost wrecked his presidency. George Bush throttled back on public expressions of concern but encouraged diplomatic pressure on the sponsors of state terrorism in the Middle East. The U.S., he insisted, would make no deals for hostages. But he was willing...
William Brock, for example, who was Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Labor from 1985 to 1987, ranked 11th in the order of presidential succession and was on the evacuation list. Brock said he never went anywhere without his special card. During one exercise, he recalls, he went to the Mall in the center of Washington and was helicoptered to Mount Weather. Brock said he took "absolutely nothing" with...
...under accommodationist fire. With the birth of the Moral Majority in 1979 and the political rise of the religious right, clashes over religious issues that had once been quiet and philosophical became loud and politically explosive. Then, as the composition of the Supreme Court became more conservative in the Reagan and Bush years, expectations began to rise that the accommodationists might get a more sympathetic hearing. Yet many major issues remain in dispute, such as whether voluntary prayer should be allowed in schools, whether government bodies can mount religious displays and whether public funding should be used for church-sponsored...
...maintaining that because they are merely fleeing from poverty and generalized chaos and violence, they do not qualify for resident status. "In Haiti people are still free to practice their religion and to hold a job -- if they can find one," explains a State Department spokesman. In 1981 the Reagan Administration reached an agreement with Haitian dictator "Baby Doc" Duvalier that permits -- but does not require -- the U.S. to return Haitians suspected of trying to illegally enter its territory, provided Haiti gives assurances that no reprisals will be taken against them. Through the end of 1990, more than...