Word: benignity
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...exile communities in Florida have been heavily infiltrated by Cuban agents. According to one source, the principal goal of the paramilitary group is to unsettle Nicaragua by such subversive acts as blowing up bridges and power plants. Another source said that the purpose of the group was slightly more benign: the CIA simply wanted to have "assets" in place if the Sandinista government collapsed on its own because of domestic unrest caused by food shortages and the deterioration of public services...
...involved us in Indochina later became so demoralized that they in effect joined the critics who had destroyed them and their President. But their original perception was not so mistaken as their loss of confidence in themselves made it appear. The rulers of Hanoi were anything but the benign nationalists so often portrayed by gullible sympathizers; they were cold, brutal revolutionaries determined to dominate all of Indochina. The impact of a North Vietnamese victory on the prospects of freedom and national independence in Southeast Asia was certain to be grave; the much maligned domino theory turned out to be correct...
...about his country; he wanted to be in on the action. His opportunity came last February, when Jaruzelski appointed him to negotiate with Solidarity. It was then, ironically, that Rakowski's reputation as a liberal began to fade. Perhaps naively, he thought Solidarity could be fashioned into a benign check on the government, but without power of its own. Rakowski became increasingly impatient with Solidarity's demands, and at one point last summer publicly accused the union of "unprecedented arrogance...
...catalyst for all that follows is the fatal heart attack of Leonard Strickland, a gentle North Carolina lawyer fond of Montaigne and Cicero. After 40 years of his benign companionship, his widow Nell doubts her ability to go it alone: "He protected me from so much ... from my harshest judgments of myself as well as of others." Strickland's death also catches his two daughters at awkward points in their lives. Cate, headstrong and twice divorced, is approaching her 40th birthday and teaching English at a small college in Iowa; like her previous school in New Hampshire, this...
...circumstance, and it would be a lot to ask of Palestinian parents that they display a political evenhandedness they do not feel. It may even be that for children like those in the Tel Zaatar home, this single-mindedness is not all that harmful. If there can be a benign side to indoctrination, it is that it offers a purpose; and when one's family is destroyed, any purpose, however limited, may be spiritually useful...