Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ambassador's address was followed by comments from a panel of Latin American experts. Lawrence Harrison, a visiting scholar at the IOP and former director of the Agency for International Developments program in Nicaragua, said that "at the root of the conflict between the U.S. and Nicaragua is the arms flow from Nicaragua to El Salvador...
ROTHMAN AND LICHTER gamely confront the historiographical school which catalogues the New Left as merely the peak of some relentless sine curve on a cycle of generational conflict or reformist sentiment. The authors emphasize the restraints on radicalism in America, invoking historian Louis Hartz's conception of a culture which assumes liberalism as a civic religion from the outset. Struggling against the strong currents of moderation, the New Left formulated a coherent criticism of the very premises of the nation's liberal tradition; it thus attracted a massive following of skeptics where earlier 20th century movements on the Left never...
...Most elected officials have very shorttern horizons. Their proper function is to help their community get through to the nest election with minimal conflict." Downs said
...Reagan has shown little inclination to treat the Salvadoran, Nicaraguan and Guatemalan dilemmas as more than incidents in a larger East-West conflict. Last week, one official in Washington aid that troubles in Latin America came from "leftists, communists, and other subversives." this off-repeated White House line obscures a striking reality about Latin America: The economic chaos Reagan will find during his trop sums up the recent history of El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala as well. But in those countries, the resulting economic, social and political inequities--not a bunch of revolutionary communists--led to upheaval. Reagan hopes...
...architecture The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, dedicated last week, tries to accomplish what few in the United States were and are willing to do--honor Vietnam veterans for fighting a national war without adding the ever-present, damning asterisk that the U S neither wanted nor won that conflict...