Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...despite the kid-glove treatment Marcos has received from Carter, he no doubt hopes for a Ronald Reagan victory next week, one that would assure him of being free from a whimsical human rights policy. Then the dictator could really bear down on his people, and "order" could be maintained at any expense. When he can no longer hold out--no matter which American candidate assumes office--the U.S. will either have to orchestrate a deft diplomacy or lose its influence in the Philippines. The State Department's motives are perfectly understandable in a historical vacuum: but the tragedy...
...life and on each other. His three literary biographies fit neatly together. Singly, each subject provides ample material for an entire book; together, the biographies meld into a literary genaeology, examining the effect that great sums of inherited money and 13 generations of a traceable breeding can bring to bear on an artist...
Trouble amid the bear hugs...
...sheer number of senior Soviet Politburo members participating in the Moscow welcome demonstrated the Kremlin's obvious desire to shore up Karmal's legitimacy and make a show of his supposed influence with the Kremlin. Mused a Western diplomat who observed the arrival: "There were more bear hugs than at a circus...
...amount of bear hugging, however, could hide frustrations over the inability of the Soviets' 85,000 occupation troops to vanquish the rebel insurgents' continued resistance in Afghanistan. In a propagandistic way, Karmal admitted as much when he complained to his Soviet hosts that bandits and terrorists armed by the U.S. and China "intimidate and loot the population and kill party members and employees of state organizations...