Word: napoleons
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...economic targets. Last March voters gave control of the legislative assembly to the ultraconservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), which has been linked in the past to death-squad activity. In presidential elections next March, ARENA is expected to defeat the moderate Christian Democrats, currently headed by President Jose Napoleon Duarte, who is dying of cancer. The new government, backed by a reshuffled military, can be expected to move more aggressively against the guerrillas, which will probably mean a heavier civilian toll...
could turn out to be for Dukakis what Russia was for Napoleon. He invested his vice-presidential choice there and nine days of his own precious time, but Bush still leads. The only consolation is that the Bentsen gambit has forced Bush to work hard in his home state; like Dukakis, the Vice President was there again last week. The Democrat's hope is that the oil recession will raise indignation high enough to smother Bush's appeals to Texans' macho instincts. Both sides have so much at stake that neither can be seen as backing away...
...Secretary of State Dean Rusk called the account "utter nonsense." Jack Valenti, a loyal friend who served Johnson in the White House for three years, suggested that almost anything written about Johnson, including Goodwin's story, was true at one time or another. "He was the same as Lincoln, Napoleon, Churchill and other notable leaders," Valenti retorted. "He was an elemental force. He was eccentric. He used words and body language as weapons. He kept people off guard. But he knew what he was doing all the time...
Ravaged by cancer, reviled by many of his countrymen, Jose Napoleon Duarte ! refuses to give up. Since returning last month from the U.S., where doctors confirmed he is suffering from inoperable stomach cancer, the Salvadoran President has ignored physicians' orders to limit his work load to three hours a day; he routinely puts in seven or more. Last week he addressed the National Assembly, met with church and business leaders, and conferred with visiting Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez. This week Duarte will return to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington to undergo chemotherapy, but he wants...
Within another 24 hours he was riding the roller coaster of emotions back down. He boarded the White House elevator to go to the lawn for a helicopter trip to Walter Reed Army Medical Center to visit El Salvador's President Jose Napoleon Duarte, gravely ill with cancer. On the elevator he was told that Attorney General Edwin Meese was calling. Reagan ducked into the White House physician's office and took the phone. Meese was in California. "Mr. President," he said, "I talked to you earlier about resigning. Now is the time I should...