Word: assessing
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Congressional reaction to the invasion hewed to party lines at first, indicating that it may have been too early to assess the true political fallout. "This was a proper use of our power," argued House Minority Leader Robert Michel of Illinois. "It is in our hemisphere. We are beginning to draw some lines here. How much of it do you take before you say, 'This is enough'?" Trent Lott of Mississippi agreed: "We don't want another pro-Castro Marxist government down there." Senate Democrats were far harsher. Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts called the invasion "Reagan...
...President could not have had a more appropriate adviser at his side as the National Security Council met Sunday to assess the impact of the attack on the Marines in Lebanon. Robert ("Bud") McFarlane, a retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, knew the scene of the carnage ultimately. For three months he had shuttled around the Middle East as the President's special envoy, trying to make sense of the region's complex web of rivalries and hatreds. No problem had preoccupied him as much as Lebanon; he had played a key role in arranging the latest ceasefire...
...assess when these sleeping giants might violently reawaken, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has been conducting a long-term study of volcanic hazards in the U.S. In an interim report, it has made public a list of 33 volcanic sites in the Western states, Alaska and Hawaii that could go off at almost any time. While the report carefully makes no predictions, it notes that some volcanologists fear that the eruption of Mount St. Helens, as well as other recent signs of seismic unrest in the U.S., may hint at the onset of a period of more intense volcanic activity...
...America, but found "the Pentagon planning group that will work out the specifics with Honduras was not even scheduled to arrive there until Aug. 1." Nelan, however, was able to draw on information he had gleaned during a three-week trip in June through five Central American countries to assess the military situation. Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who wrote this week's Essay, could also call on firsthand knowledge gained from two recent visits to Central America...
Court trials, for example, still upset the Japanese sense of privacy and are considered public embarrassments. They also aggravate a deeply ingrained reluctance to assess good and evil in others. Kawashima notes that unlike most Westerners, the Japanese find that "there is no tension posed between what ought to be. . . morality, on one hand, and the realities of the human spirit and human society as it exists." One practice that caters to such beliefs: proceedings in some civil cases are extensively thrashed out in chambers to avoid surprises, making court appearances anticlimactic. Says an American attorney working in Japan: "They...