Word: rift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resignation of Jimmy Carter's budget director. Charles Wick, the Reagan-era head of the U.S.I.A. and a frequent Safire target, gushes, "There's no way you can dislike the guy. I admire him so much." Perhaps no journalistic jousting caused the anguish of the Iran-contra rift with the late CIA director William Casey, whose 1966 congressional campaign Safire managed. Critical columns led to angry phone calls and a shouting match at a party -- all of which Safire recounted in the Times. But Sophia Casey, the CIA director's widow, recalls that her husband to the end "still...
...growing rift between the N.R.A. and some police groups is another important reason lawmakers feel freer to resist gun-lobby pressure. Last year the N.R.A. went up against Texas police groups over its lobbying for a law permitting citizens to carry concealed weapons. "They're an 800-lb. gorilla with no finesse," complains Ronald DeLord, president of the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas. "Every issue isn't the Alamo...
Lithuanian communists seemed relieved that the crisis had been postponed, but showed no signs of changing course. If Gorbachev's personal diplomacy fails to heal the rift, he will be faced with a fierce and potentially explosive test of his promise of political reform. "Moscow doesn't really have any options," said a Western diplomat. "Short of force, there isn't much it can do to stop this...
...without dwelling on the obvious, a huge social and cultural rift divides these two people. And the rift is becoming wider...