Word: switched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kirkpatrick, 58, was considered a rising Republican star even before the switch. In four years at the U.N. she became known for her strongly anti- Marxist views and unapologetic willingness to use U.S. clout. Her academic credentials (tenure at Georgetown University, four books) and blunt rhetoric made her a hit on the lecture circuit and TV interview shows. She was the sensation of last summer's Republican National Convention in Dallas, where her attack on Democrats who "always blame America first" evoked a cheering response that all but brought the roof down. Says Terry Dolan, chairman of the National Conservative...
...mind in the future. When news of her impending registration change surfaced last week in Washington, she refused to discuss the matter, declaring that she could not engage in political discussions until her ambassadorial duties formally end on March 31. "I'm not denying it," she said of her switch in allegiance. "I've been making it fairly clear that I had to think seriously about bringing my formal registration into line with my behavior and my views...
...about 500 imitation-leather copies of the New Testament. "We are rock-'n'-roll evangelists," says Drummer Robert Sweet, 24. "Stryper is a modern-day John the Baptist crying in the world of rock for those who don't have the life of Christ to turn on the light switch. Our message...
...Flutie, Boston College's miracle missile launcher and now New Jersey's , littlest General. But the U.S.F.L. started its third season last week long on pricey players, short on revenues and looking down the barrel of its own decision to take on the towering National Football League with a switch to a fall schedule in 1986. Even so, new U.S.F.L. Commissioner Harry Usher, fresh from his triumphs as second-in-command of last summer's Olympics, insists that "the state of the league has never been more positive than it is now." Looking back, he may be right...
...anarchists and the Trotskyites rose up in Barcelona but were crushed after a desperate struggle. The government blamed the Trotskyites leaders and dupes who engaged in "conscious lying, conscious provocation conscious support for Fascism." The Comintern engineered a switch in leadership, from the revolutionary socialist Largo Caballero to the moderate Negrin According to Carr. "The revolutionary ardor so easily whipped up in the summer and autumn of 1936 to fire the struggle against Fascism, had given place to the cool calculations of diplomacy: Spain was a pawn on the Eruopean chess board...