Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such attacks seemed to roll off the President. Mondale scored many debating points after a somewhat tentative start, but his target slipped the best punches. Flashing a bit of folksy humor, sounding hurt more than angry at some of the Mondale sallies and committing no harmful gaffe, a reassuring Reagan almost surely avoided any serious slippage in the opinion polls. Technically, Mondale may have scored better through the 90 minutes?a panel of debating experts assembled by the Associated Press had him ahead 187 to 168, out of a maximum of 210 points, in such qualities as reasoning, evidence...
...country's extreme right, on the other hand, took strong exception to the peace mission. The secret Anti-Communist Army, one of El Salvador's death squads, named Duarte as a target for execution. The President was bitterly criticized by Roberto d'Aubuisson, leader of the ultraright Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) and a former presidential candidate. The La Palma meeting, D'Aubuisson said, was "a monologue between old buddies for the same cause: socialism." But D'Aubuisson is increasingly the odd man out in Salvadoran politics: conservative business elements in ARENA supported Duarte...
Meanwhile, an I.R.A. spokesman refused to rule out the prospect of new attacks against "prestige targets" in Britain, and security was increased for the Queen, Cabinet members and other political leaders. In the future, no advance notice will be given for any of the Prime Minister's engagements outside the heavily guarded official residence on Downing Street. Government offices have been placed on black alert, the highest state of readiness. At the same time, tough new security plans are being devised for what could be the I.R.A.'s next big target: the State Opening of Parliament...
...expected to be signed soon by President Reagan, is meant to safeguard the years of research and the tens of millions of dollars that it takes to create a chip that can pack several hundred thousand electronic circuits onto a silicon sliver smaller than a fingernail. One target of the legislation: the Japanese, who have become the world's No. 2 chipmakers after the U.S., partly by duplicating American designs...
...some one can be prosecuted for a major federal offense; 24 states have a similar requirement for serious violations of their laws. At grand jury hearings, conducted in secret, the prosecutor runs the show: he has broad leeway to offer evidence, summon witnesses and make arguments. A witness or "target" can invoke his Fifth Amendment right against selfincrimination, but in most states he cannot bring his lawyer in to the grand jury room. Even where he can, the lawyer is powerless to do much more than tell his client to keep quiet...