Word: bulwarks
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Another 10% of the aid is contingent on the continued progress of El Salvador's ambitious agrarian-reform program, which both the Carter and Reagan Administrations have promoted as a bulwark against Communism. Congress will have to decide whether the constitutional provision passed last week gutted land reform, as some Salvadoran moderates and U.S. labor leaders suspect, or merely modified...
CRUCIAL to the Israel-South Africa connection is the United States, which is included by many critics as the third bulwark of a modern "axis" of economic gain and military repression. The international polished diamond industry offers an important example of the trade axis. As one analyst observes, "South Africa is the world's largest producer of gem diamonds while Israel has the world's largest diamond polishing center and the U.S. the world's largest diamond market...Israel's biggest import from South Africa is raw diamonds exceeding $100 million a year." (8) The U.S., of course, is where...
...Indian symbol has never completely disappeared. In the past few years it has seen a resurgence, which some students link to the growth in influence of the Dartmouth Review. The three-year-old conservative student paper considers the reinstitution of the Indian symbol a bulwark of its editorial policy...
...measure of the council's achievements. The essentials of Catholic dogma stand, of course, as does Rome's claim of universality. What has changed drastically is atmosphere and attitudes. "Before, the church looked like an immense and immovable colossus, the city set on a hill, the stable bulwark against the revolutionary change," says the English Benedictine abbot, Dom Christopher Butler. "Now it has become a people on the march-or at least a people which is packing its bags for a pilgrimage...
Another gap in the record seems to have been designed to cosmeticize Polish antiSemitism. The country's once vast Jewish community is neglected, except for brief mentions that downgrade its economic and cultural contributions. Jews are usually characterized as moneylenders or itinerant musicians, although they were the bulwark of the country's middle class during the 16th and part of the 17th centuries. The harsh restrictions on Jews and the frequent pogroms from the mid-17th century onward are summarized in four words: "Animosities did sometimes flare." Allowances are made for a German SS officer: "In his favor...