Word: undoings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week Eden Pastora stunned the Sandinista leadership by resigning as Vice Minister of Defense and leaving for Panama. The ruling directorate tried to talk Pastora into returning. Three directorate members appeared on national television to plead with the revolutionary hero to "undo" his action...
...admittedly voluntary confession, wrote Justice Byron White, was invalid because it had not been established that Edwards waived his right to counsel "intelligently and knowingly." White went on to announce a new rule: once a suspect invokes his right to remain silent until he consults a lawyer, he cannot undo it unless he himself "initiates further communication...
What a shame that we conservatives who worked to elect Ronald Reagan in 1980 will possibly not repeat that in 1984 because of a right-wing radical, "never compromising, out to reshape the world in his image." Don't coddle this redneck, Mr. President. He'll undo...
...counting on White House support, but Reagan has not yet decided what stand, if any, to take on the renewal of the law. The legislative fight promises to be a bruising one, since blacks, Hispanics and their supporters are already charging that a failure to extend the law would undo much civil rights progress of the past 15 years...
...afternoon of his testimony, Haig was still brooding in his State Department office when he got a call from the President Reagan tried to reassure him, and told him that a statement would soon be issued. Haig was apparently convinced by the conversation that the President planned to undo the appointment. But then at 6:20 p.m., State Department Spokesman William Dyess broke into Haig's office with word that Bush had indeed been named crisis manager. Haig was stunned. "This must be wrong," he muttered. To assess the situation, Haig then consulted with his top aides...