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...never bind us," he once said loftily of its pronouncements), and traditionalists who sympathize with his position have apparently supported him only as a gesture of conservative opposition. But Siri can not hope to add the additional 50 or so votes needed for election. This time Siri's less strident supporters may choose to try their luck by supporting Pericle Cardinal Felici, 67, an engaging but tough Curial conservative who managed the business of Vatican II without ever being caught up in its spirit...
...special position to which they have been relegated in the United States. Newspapers have a history of taking editorial positions with righteous indignation. There is a feeling among journalists--especially in the post-Woodstein era--that they have a responsibility to ferret out malfeasance and expose iniquity. This strident posturing has had an effect. Despite the grumblings of the public, newspapers are widely respected, or at least read. The press is protected, more or less, by the First Amendment, which states that Congress may make no law limiting its power. Over the years, newspapers have had ample opportunity to laud...
Overall disenchantment with Dukakis' record, not any particular issue, gave the victory to King, a former director of the Massachusetts Port Authority who had never before sought elective office. He ran a strident campaign in which he stressed that he stood for everything Dukakis opposed, including the death penalty, mandatory jail sentences for drug pushers and a big cut in state taxes. Boasted King Campaign Aide Angelo Berlandi: "We put all the hate groups in one pot and let it boil...
...letter to U.S. Chief Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss carried the strident ring of an ultimatum. Signed by Wilhelm Haferkamp, the German vice president of the European Community, and approved in advance by the Foreign Ministers of the nine member nations, it brusquely warned Washington that the Nine would retaliate if the U.S. began collecting extra import duties on a wide variety of their products. It also intimated that the Community would walk out of the three-year-old Tokyo Round trade talks, thus scuttling any possibility for their successful conclusion. What could follow, Haferkamp wrote, would be "a trade...
Huntington is so strident in his anti-communism, in fact, that within the administration he was reportedly known as "Mad Dog." It was Huntington who drafted the main Carter strategic assessment last year, Presidential Review Memorandum-10, which heralded the passing of "detente" and mandated a new generation of weapons of destruction...