Word: winging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sharon Lee Wing...
...Crimson editorial staff really managed to outdo itself on Monday, September 23 ("Presidential Race Offers No Choice"). Without so much as a glimmer of dissent, in its staff editorial it unanimously and unilaterally rejected the ideas of the Republican Party while complaining that Bill Clinton is insufficiently left-wing, and then amazingly lobbed the following stone at Bob Dole: "Certainly he has no new ideas. And the ones he has dredged up from the past are absurd...
...decision to resign along with Peter B. Edelman, another assistant secretary who is leaving HHS over concerns about the welfare bill, indicates that her ideals are no longer valued in the Clinton administration. In fact, Bane's resignation shows that harsh and ill-conceived but politically popular right-wing social policies are more favored by Clinton than principled, more compassionate and less draconian approaches to America's enduring poverty and welfare dilemmas...
...those issues that are most attractive to the American people. Clinton is especially singled out here; it is said that by talking about lowering the deficit and preserving the integrity of the family, and by acting to end the old welfare system, he has sold out to popular right-wing principles...
PRETORIA, South Africa: The testimony of a man convicted of right-wing political murders in South Africa may solve a notorious, nine-year-old murder mystery in Scandinavia. In 1986, Swedish prime minister and anti-apartheid activist Olof Palme was shot in the back by an unknown gunman. Testifying Thursday in an attempt to mitigate his sentence on murder and robberies, Eugene De Kock said former South African spy Craig Williamson had led an operation to assassinate Palme. The murdered Swede had supported the African National Congress throughout the 1960s and 1970s and was one of the foremost supporters...