Word: winging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...majority's norms only by the accident of his race. But this contender challenges all the established verities at once. For Jackson, the illegitimate son of a teenage mother, is a fiery preacher who rose to national prominence through controversy and tumult, and he now heads a left-wing populist movement that confronts the centrist assumptions of political life...
...even as Jackson arouses Democratic passions, this blossoming love affair cannot forever mask the reality that if he is nominated the party will lose -- and probably lose big. Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower, one of the nation's most articulate left-wing populists, insists that if Jackson is the nominee, the "increase in voters would more than offset defections." There is a glimmer of merit to the contention, since voter turnout was just 53% in 1984. But partisans made the same arguments for Barry Goldwater in 1964 and George McGovern in 1972. The results were two of the biggest landslides...
...Israelis, the question seems to turn on whether the uprising is seen as $ a civil rights struggle or a civil rebellion. "I'm not for freedom of the press," right-wing Knesset Member Geula Cohen asserted. "I'm for the freedom of Israel." But few expect the South African solution -- stopping the disorders by starving them of media attention -- to work in Israel. The often contentious Israeli press is unlikely to tolerate continued censorship. Ido Dissentchik, editor of the conservative daily newspaper Ma'ariv, called the shutdown of the territories a "hysterical step" by desperate officials trying to hide their...
Counting their chickens. Jackson's campaign got so caught up in last week's excitement that his people suddenly seemed ready to pick out offices in the West Wing. A top operative from a failed campaign was called for advice in "running the country," and an outside adviser was asked to provide Cabinet nominations...
...minute later, junior Stacey Moran stole theball from two MIT players and fed Ogilvie, whocanned a shot from the left wing. Fifty-threeseconds after that goal, Ogilvie tallied again,this time from the right wing...