Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think very correct" set of policies in connection with war-torn El Salvador. That policy, Shultz reiterated last week, contains four elements: 1) increased aid in developing the economy and democratic institutions; 2) military assistance aimed at strengthening the Salvadoran army so that it can keep the guerrillas at bay long enough for the first goal to produce results; 3) support for negotiations to broaden participation in the democratic process, notably in the elections now scheduled for late 1983; and 4) encouragement of multilateral talks in which other countries in the region would try to help solve security problems. That...
...consolidate. The result would be brutal repression. Since President Reagan has said the U.S. is helping this effort, for the U.S. to allow 7,000 people to go in and then leave them out on a limb would be a disaster. It would be a repeat of the Bay of Pigs invasion and a total discredit...
...such sentiment seems especially intense in the Bay State. One reason, of course, is the predominance of scientists who work in Massachusetts. Cambridge alone hosts two of the world's major research centers--Harvard and MIT. Harvard spokesman David Rosen says Massachusetts is a leading center of the movement to demand accountability from scientists because the populace is highly elevated enough to question those in power. Rosen draws a correlation between the concentration of Ph.Ds in an area and anti-research sentiment. "The educated are equipped to ask questions," he adds. While some of the proposed curbs are extreme...
...recent candidate's forum nervously joined in response to a reporters question that he was only a candidate of the "right people." And Kiley, a former deputy mayor under White, has been busy defending a former stint on the CIA and his reliance on Beacon Hill and Back Bay friends for campaign donations...
...tacit acceptance of CIA-induced counterrevolution as an acceptable means of foreign policy points to a tragic and misguided immorality. It also represents a glaring inattention to history, by echoing the sentiments of the many Americans who believe that the only problem with the Bay of Pigs incident in 1961 was that it didn't work...