Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feel we have the God-given right to station thousands of troops and sophisticated armaments in countries surrounding the Soviet Union and to maintain a naval base in Cuba, but we now feel threatened by a few Soviet troops in Cuba. What arrogance! What hypocrisy...
...creating a "minicrisis" to bolster his domestic political fortunes. Railed Castro: "Carter has been dishonest, insincere, immoral, and he has been deceiving the American people ... An artificial problem has been created. The fact that Carter may be in a crisis situation [at home] does not give him the right to place in crisis the world...
...chairman is gone." Back in Idaho, Church has been ridiculed by one of his traditional backers. Bill Hall, the Lewiston, Idaho, Tribune's editorial page editor, wrote, "It's not a proud moment to have the Senate Foreign Relations chairman from Idaho trying to outdo every right-wing wacko in the Senate...
During his speech on Tuesday at the U.N., the Pope was expected to chastise developed nations in the West for conspicuous overconsumption and for not providing more help to poor nations. Vatican officials suggested that the Pope might also speak out against dictatorships of the right and the left and condemn both the West and the Soviet Union for selling weapons to Third World countries...
...leadership issue, suggesting, in effect, that the nation is seeking a stronger person in the White House. Added Powell: "How can you ask an incumbent President who has faced every tough, thankless issue and has a commendable record-not perfect, but pretty damn good-to give up the right to point to the record? That's not an attack on anyone...