Word: wings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pragmatic moderation that they forced him from Gerald Ford's ticket in 1976. "Look at most of the ((Bush)) Cabinet and White House staff," says George Clark, the former New York State Republican leader who supported Reagan in 1980 against the preferences of the state party's dominant Rockefeller wing. "The more I see and read -- and I hope I'll come to think I'm just joking -- the more I think we should get ready to primary ((i.e. challenge)) Bush...
...wonder about the unusual behavior of several new colleagues who regularly lost thousands of dollars but kept coming back for more, day after day for two years. Tom Hicks, a trader on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, remembers one in particular named Peter Vogel: "He was real clean-cut -- wing tips, clipped hair, tie always knotted tightly. He didn't dress like the rest of us. They called him 'the accountant...
...mail. The message from the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) informed the mayor of Cojutepeque that she was obstructing El Salvador's revolution and gave her a choice: resign within 72 hours or face "popular justice." Gomez, a normally outspoken member of the right-wing ARENA party, knew exactly what * the last phrase meant. In the past year, eight mayors who ignored similar F.M.L.N. invitations to quit had been "executed," as the rebels call their political murders. Unwilling to become another dismal statistic, Gomez joined 42 other mayors who have capitulated to the F.M.L.N.'s strong...
...behind in the polls is the Democratic Convergence, a left-wing coalition. Its candidate, Guillermo Ungo, a leader of the rebel movement's political arm, has called openly for a dialogue with the F.M.L.N. While the guerrillas officially shun the elections as a farce, some strategists believe Ungo's participation may be useful. Explains Hector Silva, a spokesman for one of the parties in the Convergence: "Ungo knows he can't win. But with him running, how to end the war becomes part of the campaign debate...
More ominous, right-wing death squads are reviving their grisly trade. By one count, death-squad killings totaled more than 50 in 1988, more than double the number in 1987. And despite U.S. pressure on the Salvadoran army to respect civilians, soldiers are accused of responding to the guerrilla offensive by kidnaping and murdering suspected sympathizers...