Word: rift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rift between Clinton and the military? This bad: the Air Force is investigating whether Major General Harold Campbell called the President "draft dodging," "gay loving," "pot smoking" and "womanizing" in a speech three weeks ago at an Air Force banquet in the Netherlands. Because the Uniform Code of Military Justice bars officers from making "contemptuous" remarks about the President or other senior government officials, Campbell could face court-martial, one year in prison and loss of $66,000 a year in retirement pay. However, the White House seemed disinclined to get into a scrape with...
Counter's statements in a letter to The Crimson may be part of a widening rift between him and Epps, the College's top race relations official, who criticized Counter for his alleged role in the AAA charges...
...months before % the disaster, Mikhail Gorbachev had unveiled his new policy of glasnost, or openness. His idea was simply to expose the corruption of old-line communists and revitalize the party; the fear and anger triggered by Chernobyl, though, wedged that small crack of openness into a rift that eventually destroyed Gorbachev's power and the country itself...
...rift between the two activists from the Vietnam antiwar movement epitomizes the ambivalence many gays felt last week as they gathered for Sunday's march in Washington. Clinton is the most important friend gays have, but not the uncompromising advocate they want. Do they settle for whatever he offers, recognizing that other quarters of government are bound to be less helpful? Or do they fight for what they want and risk alienating their vital ally...
SOCIETY: A Gay "Friend of Bill" Ponders a Rift...