Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bill Leamer, an officer of Missouri's Sho-Me Pit Bull Club: "There's no dog that has a bigger heart. You can just feel the love coming from this dog." For those who have felt the pit bull's teeth rather than its love, that is a difficult sentiment to accept...
Even some of Reagan's supporters feel he made a basic political misjudgment by jumping into the debate over sanctions with nothing new to offer at a time when something more was needed. He seemed also to misread the depth of sentiment on the issue. While just about everyone is repelled by the oppression in South Africa and thinks something should be done about it, there is no clear consensus on what. Reagan, by heightening the visibility of the subject without offering a solution, succeeded only in exposing his own policies to closer inspection and greater criticism...
Reagan will need to use all his famous political skill to push back the increasing sentiment for strong sanctions that is sweeping Capitol Hill. Last month the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to clamp a total trade embargo on South Africa and force U.S. companies to withdraw their investments. Last week the Senate headed down a similar path as it considered three draft bills calling for sanctions. "The policy of the Administration is a disgrace and an embarrassment," charged Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy. "The Congress must act now to put the U.S. back on the right side of history...
...little has happened to indicate that the Administration's trade restraints and quiet diplomacy have met with any success. Botha's halfhearted gestures at reform have been upstaged by the state of emergency, now in its seventh week. The intransigence of his Nationalist government has only hardened antiapartheid sentiment among U.S. politicians and voters. More and more legislators feel that 1) the American public wants sanctions, and 2) economic measures are the only remaining leverage for change in South Africa. The sanctions movement got another hefty boost last week when California Governor George Deukmejian proposed total divestiture of state funds...
...terrorists' action. In Bonn, Federal Prosecutor Kurt Rebmann urged West Germans who might be sympathetic to the noble-sounding aims of terrorist groups not to excuse their grisly crimes. The Red Army, he said, "consists merely of perfidious, ordinary murderers." U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz echoed that sentiment in a speech before the Washington press corps last week, calling terrorists "beasts" and warning journalists against becoming "fascinated" with them...