Word: address
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...territory of one state to plan military or political activities that will cause instability in other states." Meeting at the National Bank of Panama building in Panama City last September, the group got all the countries involved to endorse a list of 20 objectives that address the major political and military concerns in the area. Among them: withdrawal of all foreign military advisers and bases; a scaling down of national armed forces; a commitment to democratic pluralism. So far, however, the members have failed to translate the 20 objectives into formal treaty language...
...most serious shortcomings in Rosovsky's report are the issues he fails to confront altogether. Assessing the number of senior faculty who offer courses, for example, does not help determine the quality of that teaching. And nowhere, excepting his discussion of the Core, does Rosovsky address the issue of curriculum. Are professors teaching courses students want to take? These considerations would seem to have some bearing on the quality of education at Harvard...
President Reagan expressed that theme, though in much stronger and more sweeping terms, during his TV address. Reagan has been frustrated, above all, by the determined resistance of the House to his requests for $62 million in emergency military aid for El Salvador and $21 million in funding for the Administration's not so secret war against Nicaragua's Sandinista government. Those funds have been approved by the Republican-controlled Senate, but House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill, a firm opponent of Reagan's policies in Central America, has blocked a congressional conference that could release...
Between the euphoria of the Salvadoran election outcome and the urgency of Reagan's address, the Administration's pitch to Congress produced a quick success. The Representatives attached only a relatively mild proviso to the aid bill, requiring the President to report periodically on El Salvador's progress in ending human rights abuses, most notably those of the country's predominantly right-wing death squads (see following story). Said a senior State Department official: "That's the best of both worlds...
...midst of this emotional confusion, one quiet man who has yet to speak gently, slowly arises to address this embittered assembly of ideas...