Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps D'Escoto's most striking remark was his closing comment: "Ted, on the basis of past history and of everything the Reagan administration has done to this point concerning my country, we have no reason to believe an invasion is not a likely scenario...
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's remark that the Brighton attack "was the work of evil men" makes me wonder what clear thinkers would call 800 years of British oppression in Ireland...
Bankers and investment-house officials complain that they are being blamed unfairly. Contends Daniel Buser, a spokesman for the American Bankers Association: "To say blanketly that financial institutions are cooperating with organized crime is a tragic remark." John M. Walker Jr., the Treasury Department's chief for enforcement of the Bank Secrecy Act, claims most bankers are aware of money-laundering problems and are "looking for ways to cooperate...
...State Department and his ambassador in the Philippines when he suggested he would continue to support Ferdinand Marcos because the opposition to him is a "large Communist movement." In fact, the anti-Marcos opposition includes many certifiably democratic elements, who will be outraged by the President's remark...
...press conference in Birmingham later in the day, Bush proceeded to dig himself in deeper. Asked to confirm the wording of his remark, he replied, "I didn't use 'a little' " (the tape established that he had, though). He agreed that he had used "an old Texas football expression" and added, "I stand behind it." He would not apologize to Ferraro, he said, because the remark was not aimed at her. "It was a way of assessing victory. She would understand this. She's a good competitor." Ferraro's comment: "I would not address my opponent in the same...