Word: agrarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...untouchables, it should be noted that his Administration dealt with 48 complex states and countless millions throughout the world. In Jefferson's and Washington's day our country was but a ribbon along the Eastern seaboard. Lincoln also presided during simpler times, holding together 36 predominantly agrarian states with a population of under 40 million...
Cheek said that the U.S. is not trying "to win the war militarily," adding that the emphasis of U.S. policy is reflected by the $200 million in aid earmarked for agrarian reform and food...
...more civilized surrounding cortex, is the dark hive where many of mankind's primitive impulses originate. To go partners with that throwback, Americans have carried out of their own history another curiosity that evolution forgot to discard as the country changed from a sparsely populated, underpoliced agrarian society to a modern industrial civilization. That vestige is the gun-most notoriously the handgun, an anachronistic tool still much...
...should not have. El Salvador is clearly not another Viet Nam. The superficial parallels are outweighed by some very real differences. Among them: El Salvador is not a sprawling jungle 8,000 miles from American shores, the junta is conscientiously trying to carry out an agrarian reform program, and the 4,000 leftist guerrillas are not backed by a force the size of the North Vietnamese army. Nonetheless, President Ronald Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig have invested high stakes in a guerrilla war in a republic the size of Massachusetts. By waging a campaign against "indirect armed aggression...
...comes to making diplomatic decisions or entering into diplomatic relationships. It was one thing to see how immediately valuable the friendship of the Shah was to American military and economic interests. But it was quite another not to see how and why the Shah's modernizing reforms, his agrarian reform in particular, were alien and menacing to an ancient religious culture. Not for nothing did those millions of Iranians demonstrate and strike in the schools, factories and oilfields. The U.S. refused to recognize the depths of the Iranian culture as a whole. That made it not only blind...