Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beame and his aides defend their figures and pledge alternative trims if necessary. But if the skeptics are correct, the city could face a new default threat next winter and an end to the federal loans that have kept the city solvent since January...
...danger in our present success lies down the road -when oil once again runs scarce, or the Social Security system must pay its way, or there is the threat of war. Then we may wish we had got a clearer view of the would-be Presidents. But now, with only muted adversaries in the Communist world, quiet ghettos and more food than we can eat, the call for that proverbial man on horseback lacks conviction and urgency. If a single one of the men who want to be President has dimensions of greatness, he has hardly been able to demonstrate...
...Democrat but I voted for Gerald Ford in my state's primary. I would have preferred to vote for Udall-to strengthen responsible liberalism in the Democratic Party-but I could not stand by while Reagan drove the Republican Party further into simplistic conservatism. The threat of Reagan outweighed the promise of Udall...
More significant than any external threat-real or imagined-to the Burnham regime is the narrow, racially divided base upon which his "cooperative republic" tries to stand. Burnham consolidated his power through elections that were gimmicked in favor of the 40% of Guyana's 800,000 population who are black; Marxist Jagan and his P.P.P. draw much of their strength from the resentments of the 52% that is East Indian (the remainder are native peoples, known locally as Amerindians). The black P.N.C. retains a relative monopoly on patronage, and the laboring Indian majority believes Burnham's socialism...
...Herbert, however, Stead reveals a touch of the sadist. She sets her victim up in revealing scenes and then dispatches her with hatpins of stainless prose. Miss Herbert expires totally unaware that she is leaking fatuous optimism, banalities and supercilious prejudice. In fact, her last recorded words are a threat to write an autobiography that "will open some eyes...