Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's belief in what he is doing is real, and that faith spread to his people, says Counsellor Edwin Meese. Now, says Staff Director David Gergen, that belief has been forged into pride, as the Administration has succeeded with its initiatives. The process has not been smooth or faultless by a long shot. The Communist threat to El Salvador was overstated. The idea of cutting back Social Security benefits was premature and ill-considered. The immigration program consumed five Cabinet meetings with debate and bickering. But even skeptical aides see that Reagan never turned away from his demands...
...intimate details of each death, spread eagerly from cell to cell, are well known to all the prisoners. Each time new volunteers are sought, Maze leaders review the awful effects of starvation. They want no false bravado and no dropouts. The prisoners stand silent against the cell-block doors, ears pressed to cracks in the framing, and listen to block commanders speaking in Gaelic to confound the guards, describe the ulcerated throats, the tooth fillings that drop out, the skin that turns so dry that bones break through, the inevitable blindness before death...
...soften their parched skin. A barber comes in once a week to trim their hair and, if they are feeble, give them a shave. The prisoners are weighed daily and always anxiously demand to know the exact figure, then pass the word immediately to their waiting I.R.A. comrades, who spread it everywhere. Joe McDonnell, 30, dropped from 196 lbs. to less than 100 before he died on July...
...fool the Islamic Guards, Khomeini's vigilantes, the Mujahedin spread rumors that Banisadr was hiding in Kurdistan. Actually, Banisadr spent the entire time in Tehran. He was able to move around the capital, not exactly at will but frequently, sometimes in a small car, sometimes in taxis. He wore no disguises, although he did give up his glasses, and only shaved his mustache for his escape. Occasionally, he was recognized, but no one reported him to the police. Most of the time, however, he traveled without attracting any attention...
...dissension spread last week, a hasty compromise was hammered out between the government and Solidarity, the trade union. But the agreement, which promised to rescind the ration cut after one month and make up the shortfall in the future, sidestepped the fact that restrictions are unavoidable in Poland...