Word: basins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Eastern Europe, where armed resistance to Soviet occupation could spread; Iran, where the U.S.S.R. might be tempted to fill the vacuum created by the collapse of Khomeini's rule; the Arabian Peninsula, where the U.S. Rapid Deployment Force and Soviet airborne units could fight over the oilfields; the Caribbean Basin, where even last week Washington believed Brezhnev was hinting at the possibility of another Cuban missile crisis...
...been based on the hope that the campaign would solidify power for the centrist regime led by President José Napoleon Duarte. Administration officials said that if the far right wins in El Salvador next week the President's aid plan for El Salvador, part of the Caribbean Basin package sent to Congress last week, would be reviewed. "Whatever new government is established," said one official, "it must be committed to the reforms launched by Duarte under the Carter Administration...
...source of his country's problems. This is actually an invasion of international Communism. El Salvador is not the principal objective. The objective is Central America and the Caribbean basin, and eventually the U.S. By 1969 the Communists had established violent groups to damage the economy in our region. The most violent attacks-kidnapings, terrorism-had great backing from the mistaken political thought of Mr. Jimmy Carter [a reference to Carter's tolerance for the Sandinista-led revolution in Nicaragua]. That is why Nicaragua is a pro-Soviet government today. Members of the U.S. Department of State, Venezuela...
...often obscured by its simplistic and angry bombast about an East-West encounter in Central America, the Reagan Administration already does have in place the framework for an effective policy that takes into account the North-South problems of dealing with unstable and economically troubled nations. The Caribbean Basin Initiative of economic aid for the Central American region was enlightened and constructive, and was so hailed by leaders in the region...
...societies where citizens are subject to all sorts of variables, including stress, that could contribute to hypertension. More convincing evidence against sodium conies from simpler cultures, where it is still possible to find people living relatively simple lives on low-salt diets. The tribesmen in New Guinea, the Amazon Basin, the highlands of Malaysia and rural Uganda all eat very little salt. Hypertension is virtually unheard of in those regions, and the blood pressure of individuals does not rise steadily with age, as it does in the U.S. and other salt-loving nations. But when salt is introduced into...