Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...distinct advantage to having a regional base, especially if no one else does. Gore's base helped him enter the new year with nearly $2.4 million in ready campaign cash, second only to Michael Dukakis among Democrats. Consultant Bob Squier calls Gore's ability to build a regional support system the "first institutional breakthrough among the Democrats...
Both in Port-au-Prince and Washington, there have been calls for a multinational peacekeeping force to ensure fair and peaceful elections. But neither the Reagan Administration nor leaders of other Caribbean nations have embraced the proposal. Instead, Haiti's allies have voiced support for the elections, then adopted a wait-and-see attitude...
...demonstrators got moral support from unexpected sources. After having his tour of the Kalandia camp cut short by rock throwing, Republican Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island faulted Israel's management of the crisis. Another visitor, British Foreign Office Junior Minister David Mellor, infuriated Israelis when he emerged from the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza and called conditions in such camps an "affront to civilized values." He also sharply upbraided an Israeli army colonel for arresting a 14-year-old boy accused of throwing stones. "I saw no stones being thrown," Mellor told the stunned officer...
...televised exchanges with Michael Dukakis, born-again candidate Gary Hart and Paul Simon are among the most substantial of the campaign. Kalb certainly would have questioned the vice president about evidence--including a recently surfaced memo signed by former National Security Council chief John Poindexter--that suggests Bush's support for the plan to trade arms for hostages held in Iran was stronger than he has acknowledged...
Among other revolutions in nomenclature was Vellucci's move to thwart conservative Harvard political scientists who referred to their institution as the Harvard School of Government. He won the Council's support to change Boylston St. to John F. Kennedy Street--forcing the K-School to put the name of the late president on its stationery, like...