Word: wooing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sandinista regime. Comandante Daniel Ortega Saavedra, who is running in his government's first presidential elections on Nov. 4, spent the past two weeks stumping across the U.S. Accompanied by his wife and an entourage of eleven Nicaraguan officials and ten Secret Service men, Ortega was attempting to woo Americans away from President Reagan's anti-Sandinista stance...
...Frank J. Woo...
...patrols in the field for days on end. Salvadoran officers admit that not many guerrillas have been captured or killed in recent months, but they say that by keeping the country's troops on the move they are keeping rebels scattered. The army is also trying harder to woo the campesinos to their side, mostly by supplying food and repairing war-damaged roads and electrical lines...
...profile assumed by his archrival, Roberto d'Aubuisson, the cashiered army major whose Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) holds 19 seats. Since D'Aubuisson visited the U.S. in June, he has dropped out of sight, reportedly to enter the shrimp fishing business. Perhaps unwisely, Duarte has neglected to woo Francisco José ("Chachi") Guerrero, leader of the moderately conservative National Conciliation Party. Guerrero commands 14 seats and would be a key figure in any Assembly coalition...
...woo daytime viewers during the Olympics