Word: tough
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Ford was scheduled to speak to a group of textile manufacturers in San Francisco on March 26, 1976, and Baker talked him into indicating his willingness to get tough on Chinese textiles. Kissinger's deputies were aghast, and Baker suspected that the Secretary of State would call Air Force One to have the offensive language deleted from the President's speech. Baker arranged to be notified if Kissinger tried such a ploy. When word came, Baker called the plane too. Arguing again for the President's political interests against China's hurt feelings, Baker had the lines reinserted...
George Bush is not opposed to all killing, especially when talk of frying people can help pull him out of the political fire. During the campaign, he scored big points with his tough stance on capital punishment. He supported it on the stump, in the debates, and through anticrime TV ads trumpeting his belief in the death penalty. The ads harped on Michael Dukakis' opposition to capital punishment, a position Dukakis was not shy about proclaiming anyway. The death penalty is a useful issue for any politician who believes that voltage wins votes. It works in a campaign...
Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who did not go to Moscow for the conference but followed it closely, added his agreement, then explained it in his tough, clear fashion. "Evacuation under those circumstances is psychologically impossible," he said. "There is no way you are going to get people to leave their families and intimate friends and colleagues. I've thought about this a good deal, and I think there should be an alternate Government designated out around the country, perhaps using the Governors." A good idea. May there never be the need...
...thermometer readings fall to -75 degrees, even hardy Alaskans find it tough & going. Then the frigid front blows through Canada into the American Midwest, putting an end to unseasonably hot weather...
Franz Schonhuber, 66, the burly national chairman of the Republican Party, capitalized on that disillusionment. During the campaign, he called for the repatriation, in stages, of foreign workers, an obvious reference to the 120,000 Turks in West Berlin. He also urged tough measures to stem the flow of asylum-seekers, proclaiming that a "multiracial society is a red flag to our party. We don't want it." On election night, Schonhuber exulted, "Today the Germans have shown again the need for a democratically purified patriotism...