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...radio broadcast, only days before his sudden announcement of the Marine "redeployment" and the new rules for U.S. naval and aerial engagement in Lebanon, Reagan urged that the U.S. not "cut and run" from its positions. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the President took a hard swipe at House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who had called Reagan's policy in Lebanon a failure, by declaring that O'Neill "may be ready to surrender, but I'm not." White House Spokesman Larry Speakes went a step further, accusing Democrats of promoting, through their withdrawal...
Reagan's staff applauds his aloofness from nuts-and-bolts details. "He is one of the best executives I've ever met," says Meese. Adds Baker with a swipe at Jimmy Carter's notorious overattention to minutiae: "You don't have to know who is playing on the White House tennis court to be a good President...
...sore, correctly reading in the question the faint taunt that military men may not be quite deep enough for the Oval Office. The Senator won the night by reminding his audience that he had been "representing the future of this country" in those years. He also took a swipe at New York's Governor Mario Cuomo, who had introduced the issue from another angle by saying that the candidates must demonstrate The than "celluloid images," a reference to the release of the movie The Right charge," featuring Glenn's space triumph. "As far as the celluloid charge," Glenn...
...white man came, the Indians venerated them as gods. Weighing as much 1,000 Ibs. and rearing up to 8 ft. on their hind legs, the great humpbacked beasts-among the largest carnivores in North America-can kill an elk or crumple the fender of a car with a swipe of a powerful paw. Still, for all its might, the grizzly, or more properly Ursus arctos horribilis (terrible northern bear), has become pathetically vulnerable...
...Campaigning in the economically depressed West Midlands, Deputy Labor Party Leader Denis Healey discovered a mechanical crab at a street market and held it up before TV cameras. "It moves sideways and evades your every instruction," he joked. "I'm going to call it Sir Geoffrey Howe." That swipe at Thatcher's Chancellor of the Exchequer made the evening news programs. Said Healey: "Margaret Thatcher has turned the Tory Party into her personal dictatorship...