Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...those doubts raise a more serious question: how long can a government remain trusted, beloved, when it relies on power, not reason, to enforce its dictates? In a way, Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), Jimmy Carter and the rest should be thanked--draft registration will wake up another generation, start them wondering about our world. And who's to blame if the answers they arrive at don't jibe with administration policy...
...large enough to hold a significant portion of the population, and I think he did it." Iowa's G.O.P. Governor Robert Ray, who has been cool to Reagan in the past, called the address "dynamite. He touched the soul of America. He's off to a flying start...
...From the start of his presidency, Jimmy Carter has had to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous Brother Billy. Capitalizing on his instant notoriety as a colorful presidential next of kin, Billy Carter has done everything-for a fee-from judging belly-flop diving contests to promoting a beer named after him. Last year Billy finally ended up in the renowned alcoholic rehabilitation service of the Long Beach Naval Regional Medical Center for a seven-week drying out. Things were less antic for a while, but last week, adding to Jimmy Carter's woes this election year, Billy...
...President had tried to emphasize that he meant the registration campaign to be no more than a sign of U.S. resolve in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Said he flatly: "I am not in favor of a peacetime draft." But from the start, his plan was complicated by the question of whether women should be included. Carter thought yes, and proposed registration for both sexes. But Congress said no, and last June enacted a males-only law. By then the 1971 suit, which had lain dormant for years after the 1973 ending of the draft, had been...
...year. In London, however, an associate told the Financial Times that Bakhtiar had been involved in the coup attempt and that the plotting had gone on for nine months. Said the aide: "The plan was perfect. Everyone was there. But now we have lost everything and will have to start again from scratch...