Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Salvador. But when police let him loose to show the way to one of his purported contacts, he disappeared into San Salvador's Mexican embassy, which said he was only a student and granted him asylum. Then there were two Nicaraguan air force defectors who were scheduled to bear witness to their country's involvement in El Salvador but by week's end were judged "not ready" to face the press. Finally, there was a young Nicaraguan soldier who was produced by the State Department but then promptly repudiated his previous statements about being trained in Cuba...
...tente with the Soviet Union was urged on us insistently when we entered office, hailed as a turning point when we carried it out and later blamed for all our contemporary dilemmas. In the retrospective of a decade, detente is being made to bear the burden for the consequences of America's self-destructive domestic convulsions over Viet Nam and Watergate. The former made Americans recoil before foreign involvement and thus opened an opportunity for Soviet expansionism; the latter weakened Executive power to resist Soviet pressure...
Walcott, 52, was born in St. Lucia and still lives part of each year in Trinidad. He brings a highly developed poetic skill to bear on underdeveloped areas. His point of view is both privileged and painful: "I accept my function as a colonial upstart at the end of an empire, a single, circling, homeless satellite." The upstart has not lacked for recognition; last year Walcott received an award from the John D. and Catherine MacArthur Foundation that will yield him $48,000 annually for five years. Yet estrangement is not a matter of finances: "I am thinking...
Harvard should act more immediately to repair its tremendously strained relations with disgruntled residents. The NOMATEP coalition is embattled. It also owes, by some estimates, several thousand dollars for various legal defenses. But even those who are most resigned to MATEP's operation still bear severe resentment toward Harvard and its clumsy, inconsiderate and heavy-handed fight for MATEP...
...verdict of history would be mixed. But I did not recite my caveats that evening; he would hear enough of that in the lonely months ahead-most tellingly from himself. It was evident that he could hardly bear the thought of the indignity of a criminal trial. Neither could I. If this came to pass, I told him, I would retire from office. And I believe I would have...