Word: anties
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...release of the Tower commission's scathing review of the Reagan Administration's bungled arms-for-hostages policy, the offer was sure to appear attractive to an embattled President. Moreover, the announcement seemed timed to exploit disagreements within the NATO alliance over Washington's broad interpretation of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty...
Catholic leaders are understandably concerned about this. Before Swaggart's San Salvador rallies, Auxiliary Bishop Gregorio Rosa Chavez warned about the advent of an unnamed "Evangelical preacher given to spectacles." Though most Evangelicals have toned down suggestions of anti-Catholicism, Swaggart's language is more adversarial than that of the bishop. The preacher has insisted that Catholicism is a "false cult" and "not a Christian religion." In Central America, however, he made only soothing references to "our Catholic friends...
...troop garrison in South Korea, the U.S. views that countryas a key Pacific ally and a bulwark against the Soviet-backed North Korean government. Washington was thus taken aback last year, when North Korean slogans began creeping into South Korean protests and student rhetoric turned sharply anti-American. The U.S. has since urged Chun to help defuse the situation by compromising with the opposition on a formula for the transition to democracy. Secretary of State George Shultz, who visited Seoul last week during a ten-day Far East swing, reportedly received assurances that Chun would seek such a compromise. Said...
...20th century technique of telling a story from the end is not carried off with particular novelty or innovation. So far as contemporary novels go, the plot is largely predictable. It follows the protagonist, Sibiya, from a Zula reservation to his enrollment in school, to expulsion after participation in anti-apartheid riots, to his progressive obsession with Veronica at a beach, to forbidden copulation in her bungalow, to discovery, trial and sentencing. There are few surprises in the novel, and certain scenes seem like clips from the evening news in America. Literary critics who concentrate on text at the expense...
Between these parades of caricatures, the players recount the ups and downs, but mostly downs, of the feminist movement. The cause is alternately vulnerable to infighting, anti-feminist women firmly entrenched sex roles, and a society which for the most part refuses to yield...