Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Abdnor. Abdnor pressed the attack on pocketbook issues, letting his less chivalrous allies address issues like abortion. But their efforts began to backfire--one pamphlet accused the father of five of being a baby killer, enough to convince many South Dakotans that their senior Senator truly was the victim of a smear campaign controlled from beyond their borders...
Despite his now that the voters of his home district would realize that he had been the victim of FBI entrapment and would vindicate him at the polls November 4, Myers is running what one veteran Philadelphia political observer has called "your basic invisible campaign." His campaign headquarters lists a phone number with the First Congressional District office, but it goes unanswered. Except for interviews on "Donahue" and a few other television talk shows, Myers' campaign appearances have been nearly non-existent...
...BEEN born 25 years earlier, Victor S. Navasky, editor of The Nation and author of Naming Names, a "moral detective story" into congressional investigations of Hollywood in the 1950s, would certainly have been a victim of the McCarthy era blacklists. His liberal credentials as a former editor of The New York Times and author of Kennedy Justice place him squarely in the "effete," "pinko" intellectual establishment that bore the brunt of McCarthy's character assassinations. Navasky knows this, and there is a bitter urgency about his reexamination of the '50s, whether he is writing persuasively in Naming Names or speaking...
...victim of the Congressional investigations, Navasky says, has a right to forgive the indivuduals who informed or the institutions that made informing possible. "The most I can do," he adds, "is say that they were wrong, that we must safeguard our morals under pressure, and that we have a great deal to learn from those few who resisted and ultimately prevailed...
...stunt man's death, and, suggesting to Railsback that his options are a bit limited, offers the fugitive the dead stunt man's role for $600 a stunt. The fugitive takes to his job well until he begins to suspect that he may be slated as another victim of the director's madcap...