Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ironically, our friends in Nicaragua have failed completely to accomplish their alleged aim of interdicting arms shipments. Noted the Committee report, "In 18 months, the committee has not seen any diminishment in arms flow to the Salvadoran guerrillas." Not that the insurgents have been idle. They have repeatedly battled Nicaraguan troops on and within the borders of Nicaragua, and have attacked, according to the report, "targets unrelated to arms interdiction...
...sediment of anti-American feelings. For another, the domestic debate over covert action is costing Reagan valuable political capital. The question now is whether the U.S. can sustain its covert operation long enough to wear down the Sandinistas or, failing in that, develop an overt response that will accomplish the same end. -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett and Christopher Redman/ Washington
Enter the U.S. Western European leaders believe that the military power of American remains the only check on an alleged Soviet drive for world hegemony. By encouraging the United States to station missiles on their soil, they accomplish three interrelated goals first, a supposedly greater deterrent; second, the money saved by not increasing their forces as much as they had planned; and third, the absolute assurance that any conflict in Europe will involve U.S. nuclear weapons. This is the ultimate deterrent, because after deployment the nuclear East Coast of the United States will be the West German border. America will...
...dedicated, intelligent advocate for the Salvadoran insurgents, Rubén Zamora. While in Panama, the party was briefed by Lieut. General Wallace H. Nutting, head of the U.S. Southern Command. A visit to the Canal was especially meaningful for one Newstour participant, Veteran Negotiator Sol Linowitz, who helped accomplish the return of that waterway to Panama. Later, at lunch, President Ricardo de la Espriella and Foreign Minister José Amado III presented Linowitz with the Order of Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, Panama's highest honor, for his efforts on behalf of the 1978 treaty...
...nomination are seeking Pepper's support. Senator Alan Cranston has even listed Pepper as a possible running mate if the Californian were to succeed in his long-shot pursuit of the nomination. Such a Democratic ticket, with a combined age of 154 at election time, would accomplish the impossible: it would make a Republican team of Reagan and Vice President George Bush (combined age 133) look young...