Word: front
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strong military, Bush kept campaigning right up to caucus time. On the last day, he was sure he was gaining what he called "forward momentum" as larger and larger crowds cheered him on. At each stop, supporters assured him he would win. "Don't say that in front of these fellows," joshed Bush, pointing to the press. "We're trying to surprise them." He turned up at a caucus in Des Moines just when the tally there showed him to be a big winner. "I'm on cloud nine!" he shouted. "You made my night!" Then...
...Ford backers claim to be heartened by Iowa. They envision Reagan continuing to slip while Bush fails to establish himself as the definite front runner. Then the party, runs the scenario, would turn to tried-and-true Jerry, who now plans to make a series of speeches around the country and claims that he would be "available if the ball bounced one way." Just two days after the caucuses, Ford sounded like a candidate when he sharply attacked Carter. He accused the President of "naively misreading Soviet military and diplomatic intentions." Blaming Carter's "cutting back" of the military...
Acosta and Maristany are now facing trial after a caper at a waterfront Coral Gables home. State agents watched while Maristany stood guard and Acosta opened the meter box on the outside of the house and turned back the dial. They were arrested when they went to the front door to receive payment for saving Real Estate Broker James Carbonell at least $180 on his monthly bill. Soon after, a utility representative handed Carbonell a $4,000 bill for six months of unpaid electric service...
...second week in a row, Italy's Communist Party daily L'Unità flayed Moscow with a front-page attack on its policies. The arrest and internal exile of Dissident Andrei Sakharov, said the paper, "demonstrated an inability to resolve in tolerant terms and free confrontation tensions affecting Soviet society " A few days earlier, L'Unità had printed the charge of Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer that the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was "an open violation of the principles of national independence and sovereignty." France's Communist daily L'Humamté also scored the arrest...
...week for a gathering of the clans aimed at solving one obstacle border the success of their insurgency in Afghanistan: disunity. Torn by tribal rivalries going back centuries, the rebels hoped to form an umbrella alliance of their six loose groupings comprising more than 60 different tribes. A united front, it was thought, would not only enable the guerrillas to mount coordinated, large-scale military actions. It could also attract sizable new international backing, especially from sympathetic Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia. Specifically, the tribes men hoped to select a 100-man Revolutionary Council that could unify the fractious...