Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...holds its annual winter meeting, the Fountainbleau is where the leaders stay. No one knows how much they spend on rooms, but a good guess is that many are sunning on personal terraces. There's always been this streak in organized labor--The Wobblies includes one priceless still of Samuel Gompers, the first George Meany, in top hat and tails. But the difference between 1915 and the present, and the sad message of The Wobblies, is that today there is no opposition--and no higher vision--within the labor movement...
...Samuel P. Huntington, Thomson Professor of Government, said Iraq's desire to "make clear that it is the top dog in the Persian Gulf" is the "root cause" of the spreading border conflict...
...private, Brzezinski is far less pugnacious. Says former Aide Samuel Hoskinson, "He's a gentleman and a scholar in the true sense of the words." Seweryn Bialer, a fellow Polish American who succeeded Brzezinski as director of the Research Institute on International Change at Columbia University, calls him "extraordinarily decent and honest." Bialer says he has profound disagreements with the Carter Administration, particularly over its difficulty in promulgating clear and steady policies, but he does not blame Brzezinski alone: "It's the President's fault. My disappointment with Brzezinski is that he cannot change the President...
...Samuel P. Huntington, director of the Center for International Affairs, said he supports President Carter's defense policies. Huntington cited Carter's 3-per-cent increase in defense spending, his strengthening of ties to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and an increase in the deployment capabilities of cruise missiles as improvements brought about under the Carter administration...
...abruptly ended more than a century of rule by descendants of the freed American slaves who founded the country in 1847. The seizure of power was shortly followed by gory public executions of 13 former officials and associates of the slain President. The new head of state, Master Sergeant Samuel K. Doe, 28, has since faced a host of problems as head of the 28-member People's Redemption Council (P.R.C.). But there are signs that the new regime may be getting organized, as TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack White discovered on a return visit to the Liberian capital...