Word: would
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deal also took Illinois Attorney General Neil F. Hartigan off the hook. Once a man who sounded at times like a foe of abortion, it was his department that would have argued for the restrictions when the case came before the Supreme Court. But Hartigan will be running for Governor next year. Now he can campaign as a defender of -- what else? -- abortion rights...
...Caribbean Hotel Association. "There were groups dropping out of trips to Aruba and Barbados, which were hundreds of miles from Hugo's path." So even as an army of workers moved in, a phalanx of hoteliers and government officials set out to persuade the travel industry that there would be no trouble in paradise this winter...
This is parody, of course, and not just of recent, mole-infested history, but of that other cold war, the one between divorced ex-husbands and their former wives. One of Samson's deep fears has been that Fiona would get custody of their two teenage children and spirit them off to the G.D.R. Fiona surfaces with a flourish in the current novel, her fans will be glad to learn, leaving two important issues unresolved. One is whether she was a real defector or, possibly, a truly extraordinary double agent. The other is how long Gloria, Samson's newly acquired...
Rifkin's performance, which he delivers on average 90 times a year, is a mixture of Jimmy Swaggart, Phil Donahue and Werner Erhard. Twenty years of teaching, preaching and raising consciences -- some would call it rabble- rousing -- have refined this show to the point that it has a slick, thoroughly professional sheen. Rifkin moves through an audience as if it were his private party, talking, interviewing, questioning and, occasionally but ever so kindly, embarrassing. He will perform for 30 minutes or eight hours, depending on the contract. His basic sermon is an attack on "the Boys," as he calls Francis...
Rifkin helped organize demonstrations at the U.N. and the Pentagon, and haunted bars near military bases to find soldiers who would testify about U.S. crimes. After the war Rifkin worked in Harlem as a VISTA volunteer and in 1976 organized a so-called People's Bicentennial to celebrate what he considered the real national virtue: not patriotism but civil disobedience...