Word: tucker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leaders of Arab oil-exporting states apprehensively recall that one of Reagan's advisers, Robert Tucker, a foreign policy specialist at Johns Hopkins University, sketched in Commentary in 1975 a hypothetical U.S. strategy for seizing the Arab oilfields. On the other side of the Persian Gulf, Iran's leaders are divided. President Abolhassan Banisadr's faction considers Carter preferable to Reagan, but Banisadr's clerical rivals contend that "both are tools of imperialism...
...postcards that prove Claypool even had a handsome elevated bandstand, center block on Main Street, where brass-band concerts were given every Saturday night. Another card shows an attractive little commercial hotel. "The Shipley Hotel was right there," Neff says, pointing at a building now occupied by the Chamness Tucker Funeral Home...
...convention opened with an outpouring of oratory and patriotic pageantry. Pat Boone led the Pledge of Allegiance. Glen Campbell and Tanya Tucker (whose living arrangements might not please pro-family delegates) sang the national anthem. Billy Graham gave the first evening's invocation. Then the speakers got down to the main order of business: indicting Jimmy Carter for weak leadership, bad judgment and general ineptitude. William Simon, who was Treasury Secretary in the Nixon and Ford Administrations, blamed Carter for high inflation, high interest rates and high unemployment. Said Simon: "Surely, this Administration will go down in history...
...convention is overflowing with show business celebrities who will rival the politicians on the rostrum?a far cry from oldtime conventions where delegates lustily bargained, brawled and demonstrated to choose a nominee. This time there will be Pat Boone to pledge allegiance to the flag, Glen Campbell and Tanya Tucker to sing the national anthem. Other contributions will be offered by Jimmy Stewart, Vikki Carr, Dorothy Hamill, Ginger Rogers, Donny and Marie Osmond. And the national anthem once again by Princess Pale Moon. But through all the pageantry, Reagan will set the tone by word, gesture and command...
Murton hopes Brubaker, which fictionalizes his experiences in a prison that represents a composite of Tucker and Cummins, may help his crusade. With his story "immortalized on screen by Big Bob," he thinks more people may act to promote prison reform. He notes that the film makes a 4-1 reduction in the pressures and horrors of a warden...