Word: specter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life of the community." He promised reforms, such as higher pay, increased meat supplies, more decentralization and less bureaucracy. Said he: "We understand the tiredness and impatience of the working people over the troubles of everyday life." But Gierek continued on a tough and realistic note that evoked the specter of Soviet intervention should the workers push their demands too far. "Any actions aimed at the foundation of the political and social order in Poland cannot and will not be tolerated,'' he said. "Only a socialist Poland can be a free and independent state with inviolable borders. There are certain...
Nonetheless, many Kennedy delegates went home resigned to voting for Carter but unsure themselves of whether they could work for him with any degree of enthusiasm. That will probably be determined by how successful the President is in portraying Reagan as a specter. One major reason for the anti-Reagan strategy that will be the heart of the Democratic campaign is to impose on a party that could achieve little positive unity a kind of negative unity: denunciations of Reagan are one thing, and perhaps the only thing, that nearly all Democrats can agree...
...must be built up, "whatever label you give it." At the same time, however, Kissinger continues to believe that the U.S. should be willing to negotiate with the Soviets. He indicated that he had been assured that a Reagan Administration would be "prepared to negotiate to push back the specter of nuclear war, to reduce arms and to establish rules of international conduct on the basis of strict reciprocity and principle." Kissinger also warned that the U.S. must not abandon the Third World. Said he: "We have many true friends in the developing world ... They wait for our leadership; they...
Once again the specter of political assassination seemed to threaten a nation that still vividly remembered the murders of Martin Luther King Jr., of Malcolm X, of John and Robert Kennedy. Black leaders, including Chicago's Jesse Jackson, the N.A.A.C.P.'s Benjamin Hooks, and Joseph Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, rushed to Jordan's hospital bedside. So did Jordan's wife Shirley, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, and their daughter Vickee, 20, a junior at the University of Pennsylvania. Senator Edward Kennedy, who had been campaigning in nearby Ohio, called the shooting "another...
...specter of District 65 probably pales in comparison to what the office of the associate general counsel faced this September. With all of the outstanding union contracts satisfactorily settled for a three-year period. Powers can lean back and take a labor breather for the time being. Neither the unions nor the administration, however, display an air of complacency; recent history has provided ample examples of how quickly disputes can flare, especially in a time of economic stress. Powers, for one, does not mind being on guard; he says he has seen so many disagreements in his stay at Harvard...