Word: affirmative
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used it before. For the sake of American business interests and the political stability needed to ensure their profits, we have denied support to legitimately elected governments and popular revolutions, causing them to turn elsewhere for help. Then we shake an accusing finger in their faces as we staunchly affirm our resistance to Communist incursions...
Even if the White House's assessment of the Salvadoran army's dire straits is correct, sending more advisors and funds will be at best ineffective, at worst catastrophic. Presumably, the Administration has no illusions about routing the leftists; the overwhelming majority of military experts affirm this is an impossible dream. So Washington no doubt hopes only to keep the rightist government in place as long as possible. The advisors and funds are nothing more than temporary measures that demonstrate an acute lack of long term vision...
...Israeli people and soldiers, "by affirming their humanity, also affirm the Palestinians'. They have risen in protest against the politics of terror that Israel itself has long had to endure. By their shame, they shame the killers of their own children. By their revulsion, they expose the hypocrisy of many of their critics." (Times Sept. 29). Mr. Bisharat, though his selective conscience, factual omissions, and distortions, is simply one more of those duplicitous assailants. William Marks...
...that the negotiations between Lebanon and Israel were "worse than Camp David." In Nicaragua, where he was attending a meeting of nonaligned countries, Syrian Vice Premier and Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam said that his government would resist any peace terms imposed on Lebanon by Israel. Declared Khaddam: "We affirm our categorical rejection of the Israeli conditions proposed to Lebanon." Syria has already rejected Reagan's Sept. 1 peace initiative, which calls for a future relationship between Jordan and the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, largely because it makes no mention of the Golan Heights, which Israel...
...citizens we wish to affirm our loyalty to our country and its ideals, yet we must also hold to the universal principles proclaimed by the church...