Word: beachhead
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...slipped from 56% in February to 33%. A poll taken last month by Democratic Pollster Peter Hart found that the public agrees, two to one, with the statement that Reagan's programs favor "the wealthy and big business over the average workingman." Claims Hart: "It's a beachhead that has been established...
...Cabinet is forming, and so is the White House staff. The Administration-to-be has established a beachhead in Washington, gathered a talent pool, decreed that ceremony will be upgraded and the Inaugural Parade shortened...
...savage counterattacks by Iranian regulars and militiamen. Reported an Iranian journalist who witnessed one of the battles: "The carnage was unbelievable. The plains around the city were strewn with corpses." By Saturday the Iraqis claimed that their infantry had crossed the Karun River and thus established a new beachhead beyond Khorramshahr...
...recent abhorrent Palestinian raid in Israel [March 20] along with all the others makes it terrifyingly clear that if a Palestinian state is established in Israel it will be only a beachhead from which to launch attacks on Israel. War and more bloody terrorism will be the result, not peace...
...young actors and artists, and a restaurant that doubles as a Christian supper club on weekends. (December attractions: a professional puppet show on the Nativity, and converted Folk Singer Noel Paul Stookey, formerly the middleman of Peter, Paul and Mary.) Moore is also trying to establish a helpful beachhead in an asphalt jungle of derelicts, runaways, lost teen-agers and prostitutes, sex parlors and porn shops. Says he: "God isn't into skywriting. He's into people coming to the end of themselves and admitting they're a mess and need help...