Word: targetted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than a year ago, conservative strategists gathered in some D.C. war room and began sticking pins in maps. They aimed at Church--their chief target, for he was floor manager for the Panama Canal "giveaway." They stuck a pin in Indiana, where they said Birch Bayh had voted consistently to cut national defense. Iowa's John Culver made it to the list, for his fellow Iowa liberal, Dick Clark, has proven vulnerable in 1978. And George McGovern, it almost went without saying, got a pin too, if for no better reason than the memory of his radlib...
...South Dakota, for instance, where McGovern is making his fifth and, he promises, his last, run for the Senate, "Target McGovern" and other groups began as early as two years ago to disseminate literature and recruit volunteers, all in an attempt to soften up the progressives for Republican challenger Jim Abdnor. Abdnor pressed the attack on pocketbook issues, letting his less chivalrous allies address issues like abortion. But their efforts began to backfire--one pamphlet accused the father of five of being a baby killer, enough to convince many South Dakotans that their senior Senator truly was the victim...
...open. Rocard does have a vulnerable side: a tendency to shoot from the hip. Last summer he seriously suggested sending the French navy into the Baltic to rescue Poles in the event of a Soviet invasion. Such pronouncements might seem to make him an easy campaign target. Nonetheless, Giscard would rather run against Mitterrand-if only to defeat, once and for all, those Socialist Party leftists who still long for an alliance with the Communists...
...eight years of detention in a military camp to seek medical treatment abroad. Marcos has so far produced no evidence directly linking the exiles to the April 6 organization's bombing campaign; the arrest orders seemed largely intended to put pressure on his most vocal opponents abroad. Another target may have been the Carter Administration, which has persistently urged Marcos to end martial law, but needs to maintain good relations with him because of U.S. military bases in the Philippines. Meanwhile, U.S. officials regard leaders like Aquino as the most promising successors to Marcos...
...Buckley, the quarterback who led Harvard (4-2, 2-2 Ivy) to its best start since 1973, will return to the starting lineup today after three weeks out with a knee injury. Harvard's passing attack--dormant for the past three weeks--should return with Buckley although his favorite target, Ron Cuccia, remains questionable...