Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...actual source of the recent Central American unrest is the oppression and misery of those people--not Cuban intervention, Regalado said, adding "the fact that the administration is not addressing the real issue means the problem will not be solved...
...fine line between people's desires and their immediate needs," Higgins says. "We take advantage of people with expendable money." In his three years as manager he has steered away from bizarre novelties, such as jars of actual manure labeled "Bullshit," toward mildly whimsical staples like Paper Moon cards, seasonal gifts and wrapping paper...
Lilienthal's portrait of the city of Leon in the final days of the revolution--reenacted with the eager aid of dozens of actual participants--has its share of melodrama, certainly. And the drama is poorly developed, really just one episode after another. But the director drives home one crucial point: short of wholesale slaughter, there seems no way of stopping a popular revolution in a small country. The few National Guardsmen who must "control" Leon, in reality control only the garrison in the center of the city, and the radius of automatic fire around their heavily armed vehicles. Sooner...
...their way to teach writing, one group of young brigadistas meet an old brigadista--one who had fought alongside Augusto Cesar Sandino in the late '20s and early '30s, one who had fought actual Yanquis and not just the products of our arms industry. The youngsters are fascinated, the toothless old man only too happy to answer questions like, "What did you do with the Yanquis when you caught them?" ("We let them go without their ears," he grins). You can either be amazed by the power of tyrants to hold out against suffering people, or the power of long...
Soviet declaratory doctrine, by contrast, is an auxiliary to propaganda and diplomacy. The words serve to disguise and even deny actual military capabilities. Instead of trying to frighten their enemies into restraint, the Soviets are trying to enhance their bogus claim of championing disarmament and advance their campaign to divide NATO...