Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Salvador's Santa Ana volcano juts majestically over a verdant carpet of coffee bushes, coconut palms and banana trees, and the occasional clump of peasant shacks. Nine years of civil war have racked vast portions of the country, but Santa Ana and the rest of western El Salvador have hardly been touched...
...sudden surge in F.M.L.N. urban violence, is a graphic demonstration of what even the Bush Administration privately acknowledges is the F.M.L.N.'s improved military prowess. Despite the infusion of $3.4 billion in American aid over the past eight years, the Salvadoran government is not even close to winning the civil war. Troops killed most of the guerrilla leaders in the west eight years ago, forcing the F.M.L.N. out of the area. The rebels' return underscores their new strength and the army's inability to vanquish them permanently...
...probably because we didn't fulfill the slogans we proclaimed in 1917: "Power to the Soviets," "Land to the peasants," "Factories to the workers," "Bread to the hungry." Authoritarian leadership and therefore a lack of democracy have led to a certain apathy among the people, to a sort of civil nihilism, a skepticism. And to all this we must add the mistakes of the cult of personality. That's just one part of the problem...
...President, Bush still loves to free-lance. He jots dozens of private notes, reluctant to rely on dictation. He makes and takes scores of phone calls each day, talking to an army of people in and out of government, from Congressmen to civil rights leaders to cronies from the Texas oil fields. He loves marginalia: recently he extensively edited a staff memo on Soviet- American relations...
Though Atwater claims the country has already "entered into a post-civil rights era; civil rights are not the driving force," racial politics are still with us. As demonstrated by the continuing southern white switch to the Republican Party and the heavy Black vote for civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, civil rights are still an issue...