Word: bushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bush Administration clings to the notion of Soviet domination in Central America in the face of international and domestic pressure to cut off military aid to El Salvador. This pressure comes at a time when the influence of right-wing death squads--some closely affiliated with President Alfredo Cristiani's ARENA party--is increasing. The most outrageous of the recent human rights abuses include the killing and mutilation of six priests, their cook and her fifteen-year-old daughter, at the hands of 30 men in military dress...
...same time, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Bush believes neither Cristiani nor the military had any role in the priest killing. He believes "Cristiani would not lie to me in a matter of this importance." He believes--despite the fact that Cristiani's telling the truth might jeopardize the $1.4 million dollars a day in aid his government receives from the United States...
...left-wing government, despite ideo-logical differences with the Bush Administration, would have to work quite hard to reach the level of human rights abuses the right has achieved. While Bush continues to claim that U.S. policy is on the side of democracy in El Salvador--democracy defined as allegedly free elections in a country where the military rounds up peasants to drive them to the polls--he is increasingly identified with terror and poverty in the region...
...month ago, George Bush announced at a press conference that the American people have nothing to fear from German reunification. If he really believes this is so, we can only assume that Bush does not value history's lessons. Unless he changes his position, Bush could go down in history as Neville Chamberlain...
...that I was going to New Haven for the Harvard-Yale game. Kentucky is a state that's big on sports, but the Harvard-Yale game?! She looked at me as if I'd lost my bearings, as if I'd suddenly announced that I'd voted for George Bush...