Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rental car loaded with explosives blew up in the Athens suburb where the Poros was due to dock later in the day; the two people in the car were killed. Greek police speculated that the terrorists planned to take over the vessel, bring the explosives onto the ship and turn the Poros, with 505 aboard, into a floating bomb. The gunmen on the vessel might have learned of the car explosion and decided on aimless killing instead...
What can Bush do now? Pick Bob Dole? Name any movie Bob Dole has starred in. Even if Bush does choose an actor to balance out the Stewart factor, who will he turn to? Sly Stallone? Robert Mitchum? Stewart is Hollywood. He is the last of the great film giants, a guaranteed box-office smash...
DUKAKIS doesn't even have to worry about losing the West now that he has a running mate who was part of the cast for the 1962 film, How the West was Won. All Dukakis has to do now is turn to Stewart instead of paying attention to the polls...
...Communist Party Conference. Moscow street workers pulled down the festive red bunting and banners that had decorated the Soviet capital during the conference's four days of extraordinarily open debates and disputes. More substantively, General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev convened the 13 voting members of the ruling Politburo, who in turn scheduled a plenum of the 307-member policymaking Central Committee for later this month. Its purpose, declared the Politburo, would be "to discuss questions concerning the practical realizations of measures noted in the conference documents...
...press is not going to give your whole argument," Reagan told the Vice President. "Every time I go out now and later turn on the television to watch, they have me saying 'Hello' and 'Goodbye,' and they have Sam Donaldson delivering my message. You've got to get some money and buy some TV and deliver your own message...