Word: central
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the White House has been in and out of more political battles than one can count in the past half a dozen years, the armies of the industrialized world have been mercifully underemployed. There have been no superpower standoffs, no new Viet Nams in Central America, no Cuban missile crises or Afghanistan invasions, no oil embargoes. There have been failures like Lebanon and frustrations like Nicaragua. Yet a significant number of experts believe that even if Reagan does not manage to negotiate a reduction in nuclear weapons, the grim specter of World War III, an image relished by demagogues...
...President's speech was the launching pad for an energetic public relations offensive that Robert Dole, the Republican Senator from Kansas, dubbed Comeback Week. Reagan's first important move was to accept the withdrawal of Robert Gates' nomination to become director of Central Intelligence. As the CIA's deputy director and a close ally of his disabled former boss, William Casey, Gates had come under fire for his involvement in Iranscam, and his chances for Senate confirmation were looking dim. In Gates' place Reagan nominated FBI Director William Webster, a former judge who is widely respected for his integrity...
Since the Tower commission could not answer the question of what happened to the funds diverted to the contras, Reagan hardly discussed the matter, simply expressing confidence that the "truth will come out." He did not address a central finding of the report, that NSC officials secretly managed the contra war effort at a time when U.S. law prohibited U.S. military assistance to the rebels. As he has done previously, Reagan assured his audience that "I didn't know about any diversion of funds to the contras," adding, however, that "as President, I cannot escape responsibility...
...that is the language spoken in present day Turkey!) languages which have a rich literature from the ninth century onward. For someone who is interested in improving American relations with both China and Russia, it is necessary to know at least the languages and literatures to be found in Central Asia, all of which predate American literature by several centuries. And to keep Rosenthal's soul at peace, Akkadian was there long before even Europe was discovered, and is a major source of our knowledge of the ancient history of the Near East, predating even the founding of the kingdom...
...spoke with a power that came from her experiences--a sustained anger that serves as an example for positive and constructive peace in central America," said Phillip N. Fucella '90, a member of the undergraduate Committee on Central America...