Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sandinistas to give up all Cuban and Soviet-bloc aid, open negotiations with the contras, release all political prisoners, restore civil liberties and hold elections soon. Reagan was pleased to regard this as a bipartisan plan because it had won the co- sponsorship of Democratic House Speaker Jim Wright...
What it had not won, however, was the support of Central America. The same week that the Reagan-Wright plan was announced, the Presidents of five Central American nations gathered in Guatemala City and signed a plan of their own. This was largely the handiwork of Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias Sanchez, a soft-spoken, stiffly formal politician who had taken office only 15 months before. Arias labored quietly and relentlessly to come up with a peace agreement that all the region's combatants might endorse. Arias' plan was much easier on the Sandinistas than the U.S. proposals...
Senior Eric Reveno and junior Howard Wright are also scoring threats for Stanford. The two 6-ft., 8-in. forwards combined for 20 points a game last season. With 6-ft., 11-in. center Greg Butler, the Cardinal will have a marked height advantage over the Crimson...
...Wright has legitimately been provoked by White House confusion and reluctance to consult with Congress. But the Speaker's reclusive nature and / mercurial personality have alarmed even some in his own party. There is coolness between him and the powerful Ways and Means chairman, Danny Rostenkowski. Wright's pressure on younger Democrats to change votes on partisan maneuvers has left them muttering. It may be that Reagan's Nicaraguan policy is all wrong, but Wright should not be dealing with foreign powers or giving the perception that he is. His job is to run the House, which is not going...
...more the year after. But as the President and congressional leaders announced the plan, a strange air of anticlimax pervaded the White House briefing room. "This agreement is probably not the best deal that could be made," said Reagan, "but it is a good, solid beginning." House Speaker Jim Wright struck a conciliatory note: "Everybody gives some, nobody gets everything he wants." Later New Mexico's Pete Domenici, a seasoned veteran of the Reagan era's most bruising budget battles, fairly sighed with resignation: "What we have done is what can be done...