Word: respondents
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...believe it. To them, Reagan is both the cause and repository of the nation's renewed sense of optimism and patriotism. Says Indiana's Republican Governor Robert Orr: "He takes the high road in that happy and enthusiastic way of his; people can't help but respond positively." Agrees Rahm Emanuel, a Democratic political consultant in Illinois: "He shows a confidence just in the way he stands. He is tall in the saddle. Ronald Reagan is a ball game and a picnic on a weekend in July...
Scowcroft's part of the script called for him to respond to Aspin by holding a press conference and by saying that he thought the double build-down "fits well with what the commission has recommended." Flying across the country to attend the funeral of Washington Senator Henry Jackson, Nunn and Cohen conceived a letter similar to Scowcroft's, which they released in mid-September. The Senators stated that the build-down plan that Kent helped devise contained "the ingredients for a bipartisan consensus...
Iraq attacked two Iranian oil facilities last week; the damage was apparently slight, and Iran did not respond. While the Arab states tried to get the United Nations Security Council to condemn Iran for its intransigence, Syria, at the behest of the Saudis, sent to Tehran a delegation headed by Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam. He reportedly carried a Saudi offer to try to press Iraq to lift its siege of Iranian oil ports if Khomeini would agree to negotiate. The Iranians rejected the idea. As a U.S. diplomat put it: "No one has cracked Khomeini. He hears...
...violence coincides with efforts by President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier, 32, to respond to U.S. pressure to liberalize a regime that still vividly recalls the repression fostered under the rule of his late father, Francis ("Papa Doc") Duvalier. In recent weeks Duvalier has sent letters to police and military officials, demanding that they respect due process of law and stop using torture. Ironically, the liberalization seems to have emboldened rather than placated the populace. At week's end Duvalier announced that five ministers had been fired in a major Cabinet reshuffle...
Please do whatever you can to get heroin legalized for easing pain. As a nurse, I hear so many brave but torture-ridden people cry for relief from pain. So many patients just don't respond to morphine. Why must they scream and beg for relief...