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Despite his anti-establishment rhetoric, Arias rose up through the ranks of the party; in 1964, he became an assistant to PLN's elder statesman, Jose Figueres Ferrer, and in 1965 he worked on a PLN candidate's unsuccessful presidential...
...reason to be pessimistic. Last year's team, battered and bruised, should have been nicknamed the Black and Blue, not the Crimson. And maybe the best designation for this year's club is the Green. Yohe, who started only a couple of games in 1986, is an elder statesman on this unit...
...shore in safety." Shaw's dramas brim with advocates of free thought and liberal policy, but his correspondence reveals him as a fool of the new totalitarians. Adolf Hitler is a "wonderful preacher of everything that is right and best in Toryism"; Joseph Stalin is the "greatest living statesman...
...Soviets grew impatient with the slow pace of the negotiations in Geneva, so in the summer of 1986 they proposed higher-level talks. Paul Nitze, a State Department official and the Administration's elder statesman of arms control, led an American team that included Perle, Kampelman and others. Two sessions were held, in Moscow in August and in Washington in September. Both sides moved closer on details of a possible START agreement, but there was no progress...
...Jackson says no, Dukakis can afford to let down his reserve and hug Jackson tightly. Jackson would immediately become a great party statesman, with either a formal or an informal role, tapped and consulted on all major issues. If Jackson says yes, that he feels the Veep spot is his by right, a long and delicate dance will ensue. Dukakis will have to decide whether putting Jackson on the ticket would be more harmful than trying to exclude him, and if so, whether he has the convention votes to win such a fight...