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Noting that Jackson had claimed to be waging a moral crusade, Jewish leaders turned the morality issue against him. If Jackson did not disavow Farrakhan, they argued, then Walter Mondale should reject Jackson as unfit for any role in the party's political campaign. Caught in the controversy, Mondale faced the delicate task of trying to maintain Jewish support without alienating Jackson and his millions of black supporters...
...members of an elite police group known as the Leopardos, created to combat the country's rampant cocaine trade. At first it appeared that Siles' days as President were over. But the show of loyalty to democracy was impressive. A military communique stated that "the armed forces reject this attempt against the President." The powerful Bolivian Confederation of Workers, which has been staging a series of strikes to protest worsening economic conditions, also declared its support for "constitutional order." Scarcely ten hours after the incident had begun, Siles was found in a La Paz warehouse and was released...
...nuclear warhead, the psycho-sexual elements of penis-envy described by peace activist Helen Caldicott, is matched by Rick and his friends' contradictory vision of the female. Rick cheers when the auto-mechanic raises a toast to "women with big tits" but through deep self-examination is led to reject the ephemeral and ultimately self-destructive zeitgeist of his own sex drive (read: the arms race...
Mitterrand was the most important Western leader to venture to Moscow since NATO began to install new missiles in Europe last November. A principal purpose was to persuade the Soviets to renew the frozen East-West dialogue. The Kremlin used Mitterrand's visit to reject U.S. President Ronald Reagan's offer, made at a press conference one week earlier, to meet with Chernenko. At the end of Mitterrand's first full day, Kremlin Spokesman Leonid Zamyatin declared that "there has been no change in the American position that would make a summit meeting a real and concrete...
...last hours Geoffrey's business is to reject finally, definitively, all redemptive possibilities: love (represented by the return of his wife Yvonne); ideological commitment (represented by his hall brother Hugh, who was Yvonne's lover); even such mild anodynes as friendship and nonalcoholic amusement. His fate is to touch bottom, literally in a den of thieves, and he is in haste to find it. The intelligence of Gallo's work lies in his recognition that the symbolic values of Under the Volcano's major figures, incidents and landscape are intrinsic and easy to catch. They need...