Word: snubs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...politician who was not invited to visit the presidential residence last week was Rabbi Meir Kahane, 52, the Brooklyn-born head of the Kach Party. Not that the snub dismayed him. The founder of the New York City-based Jewish Defense League, who emigrated to Israel with his special brand of right-wing extremism in 1971, was still savoring one of the most divisive victories in last month's elections. Three times before, he had tried and failed. His success was yet another indication that the Israeli electorate was shifting to the right...
...essential issue remains unresolved: how to give Jackson the respect he so avidly seeks and thinks he deserves. Jackson tends to equate his cause with that of blacks in general. He says he wants respect not only for himself but "for what I represent." He believes that a snub to him is a snub to blacks everywhere. Thus he was doubly indignant last week when Mondale ignored his call for a "summit" meeting of the candidates to hash out their differences...
...Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher's visit a month later, the Soviet press published reports that West Germany's soldiers resemble a "Hitlerite army" and that the government was plotting to take over East Germany. China, which Moscow has every reason to entice away from the U.S., received a pointed snub in May with the last-day cancellation of what was to have been the highest-level visit in 15 years. The Soviet Union, concluded an editorial in the British weekly the Economist, has "gone into hibernation...
...last Wednesday's nationally televised Columbia University debate when moderator Dan Rather asked for a brief position on the issue. The Rev. Jesse Jackson endorsed several strong measures; Mondale said he supported a ban on the sale, manufacturing and possession of Saturday night specials, or snub-nosed pistols. Hart, without qualification, said he opposed federal control of handguns...
Reagan already flubbed the opportunity to lessen the dangerous cold war mentality that has descended on the superpowers by sending his vice president. George Bush, to Moscow in his place. Reagan's snub, coming on the heels of a similar turn-down upon Leonid Brezhnev's death, only underscores his lack of understanding about the finer points of superpower relations...