Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same time, paradoxically, the Democrats fell victim to their accumulated success. "The New Deal and Great Society programs worked a lot better than people think," says Democratic Senator Dale Bumpers of Arkansas. "A lot of people left poverty and joined the middle class. We lost a lot of traditional coalition Democrats in the process." Says former Senator Adlai Stevenson III of Illinois: "We cannot win any more with just the old core constituencies. There aren't enough of them. They've moved...
Historically, Democrats won by embracing disparate and even warring factions. The New Deal coalition included urban ethnics, Southern Protestants, dirt farmers, Jewish intellectuals, illiterate coal miners, poor blacks and virulent racists. Improbably, they rallied behind a Groton-and Harvard-educated polio victim with a patrician accent...
...skimpy radar facilities. For the past two weeks, a 20-man team from the Pentagon has been in Kuwait discussing the country's security needs. "We assume Kuwait is No. 1 on the escalation scenario," says a senior U.S. diplomat. In other words, Kuwait would be the first victim...
Every evening, during the rounds of diwaniyas, a sort of casual salon of talk and coffee sipping that begins in the late evening, the Kuwaitis ponder their uncertain future. Says one politician: "We fear that Kuwait's freedom will be the victim of these attacks on our tankers." But it is more than just Kuwaiti freedom that is at stake. It is Kuwait itself. -By Richard Stengel. Reported by Barry Hillenbrand/Kuwait and Johanna McGeary/Washington
...court sentenced an Italian monk found in possession of alcohol to 25 lashes, 30 days in prison and a fine. Another decreed that a convicted thief should be hanged, his body publicly displayed for 30 minutes, then crucified. A third punished two men found guilty of shattering a victim's tooth by removing a tooth from each of the attackers. Such are the rulings that have characterized the first seven weeks since emergency courts were set up to enforce the Islamic law of Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiri. In September the President may make his system even more implacable, Western...