Word: flank
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...Vice President's campaign aides argued that a strong Robertson candidacy would actually help protect Bush on his vulnerable right flank by drawing support from conservatives such as Kemp and Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt. But W. Clark Durant III, a Detroit attorney who chairs Kemp's operation in Michigan, maintains that the Vice President was the big loser last week. "While a lot of the numbers may be overstated or double counted or muddled, the message is really very clear," says he. "The Republican grass roots want an alternative to George Bush. Even by his own count, Bush didn...
...could sustain such costly victories. Now we wonder how long they can sustain such costly defeats." Nonetheless, the Iraqi command seems to have regained its composure since the first weeks of the Iranian onslaught. They are well prepared for a long-predicted Iranian offensive through the Hawazia marshes that flank the highway north of Basra, which is just 50 miles from Fao. Defensive earthworks have been built along the road, with machine-gun nests and tank positions placed every 500 yards. The Iraqi brass is determined not to be diverted from retaking the Fao Peninsula. Declares Defense Minister General Adnan...
...Administration fears a horrifying, though hardly realistic, potential scenario: the Sandinista army storming up though Honduras, linking forces with its revolutionary allies in El Salvador, and driving on through Guatemala and into Mexico. The prospect of an armed Communist bulwark on America's southern flank is what Reagan dreads most. But the governments of Nicaragua's neighbors do not seem as concerned, in part because they believe the U.S. would immediately jump to the rescue. "We're not really afraid of a Sandinista invasion," says one Honduran military officer. "They wouldn't make it to Tegucigalpa before the 82nd Airborne...
...hates Russia more than it wants to fight fascism, so they line up behind Reagan on the left flank of the anti-Soviet war drive. Because the ISO does not defend the Soviet Union against imperialist attack, they are impotent in the face of its domestic reflection: union-busting and race terrorism. The most hideous recent example of race-terror was the cold-blooded, state-organized murder of 11 members of the MOVE commune in Philadelphia by Reagan and his Black democratic front-man mayor Wilson Goode. However, despicable Joe Menn can joke in his piece about Klan-style "sordid...
More accurately, Townshend's search seems to be not for the beautiful but for the esoteric. In his overtly Freudian sketch "Horses," Pete presents one of the many dreamlike situations offered by the book: "Confronting the white horse I put out my hand and brushed hard down the flank as if to smooth away the mark of a girth strap. As I did so, the skin fell away, and the dry white bones of the rib cage appeared. Beneath the ribs, living within the body of the horse, moved a massive snake. Its skin shone green and blue...