Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American refugees the Administration refuses to welcome. Democratic Congressman John Joseph Moakley of Massachusetts, sponsor of legislation to prevent the deportation of Salvadorans and Nicaraguans, accused the Administration of "playing politics with people's lives" in helping Nicaraguans (reflecting U.S. aversion to the Sandinista regime) while ignoring ; Salvadorans (to avoid suggesting that they might have reason to flee from a government the U.S. supports). Said Moakley: "If El Salvador were under Communist leadership, they'd have the welcome wagons out waiting...
...opposition politics. I strongly believe we will not have a split in our party as we have had in the past. In a speech yesterday, with Kim Dae Jung standing by my side, I made four promises: to avoid letting the ruling party split us, never to compete against each other for votes, to struggle not only for democratization but for a united front after that and, finally, never to repeat the folly of 1980 ((when the two Kims led opposing factions for the presidency...
...when Barbie was deported to France by Bolivia, where he had fled to avoid prosecution, many believed that he would never be brought to court because he knew too much about treachery and informants within the French Resistance. Indeed, Barbie had bragged that he would reveal the extent of French collaboration with the Nazi occupiers. Many French feared the result would rip open barely healed wartime divisions among themselves. It turned out, however, that the French followed the trial with calm rather than passion. The proceedings were regarded almost as a history lesson rather than an occasion to refight painful...
...leading contender for the court seat from the first moments after Powell resigned. His name headed separate wish lists drawn up by both Attorney General Edwin Meese, who wanted a conservative in his own mold, and White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker, whose chief concern was to avoid an all-out war over confirmation. Though the combined list the men prepared for the President contained a dozen names, at a Monday-afternoon meeting with Reagan, Baker spoke for himself and Meese when he told the President, "Bork is a cut above all the rest...
...landowner herself, Aquino holds title to nearly 1000 hectares of land at her family's estate, the Hacienda Luisita. She is more than a simple housewife. She is also an heiress of the powerful Cojuangco clan, and as such faces pressure from within her own family to avoid a land reform program that would destroy its livelihood. Indeed, the pressure led her to reject a trial land reform project at the Hacienda Luisita...