Word: antigovernmental
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The Sandinistas' show of moderation was diplomatically deft. It was as if the U.S., not expecting them to play along with the Contadora plan, failed to compute the consequences for its allies in the region. Under the Contadora treaty, those countries could be denied U.S. military help. Washington has...
The signs last week were mixed. Gemayel telephoned Syrian President Assad and invited him to send a delegate to the conference; it was the first formal contact between the two countries since last spring, when Gemayel earned Assad's enmity by signing a troop withdrawal accord with Israel. On...
For Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Sept. 21 is normally a festive occasion, the annual Day of National Thanksgiving honoring the imposition of martial law in 1972. But the 200,000 demonstrators gathered in Manila's Post Office Square last Wednesday were commemorating another event: the unexplained assassination exactly one...
The dual-anchor NewsHour premiered the same Labor Day evening that the networks offered solo-anchor shows for the first time since 1976. That singular difference in format, however, seems less striking than two other qualities: the leisurely, almost ruminative pace of the NewsHour, vs. the breakneck momentum of the...
Walesa's pointed barb at Military Ruler General Wojciech Jaruzelski indicated that the former Solidarity leader had no intention of retiring from public life, even though Pope John Paul II was rumored to have suggested such a move during his recent visit to Poland. As all Poles are well...