Word: confronted
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When U.S. troops rushed to Panama's National Police Headquarters two weeks ago to confront a small-scale revolt, they did so without waiting for President Guillermo Endara to ask for help. The reason for the breach of diplomatic procedure? At least four American military officers, including James Steele, head of the U.S. military support group in Panama, were in the building when the rebellion began. After American troops surrounded the headquarters, the officers were allowed to leave. The U.S. embassy then helped Endara make a request...
...wary. "Of all the postcommunist countries, Poland alone had a broad democratic movement like Solidarity, which we hoped would prepare us for any setbacks," says Bronislaw Geremek, once a close adviser to Walesa who later allied himself with Mazowiecki. "This election proves that Poland, like all the others, must confront the authoritarian temptation." Next week it must also confront the temptation to cast its fate with a mysterious stranger, one who turned up suddenly to offer a dubious promise of salvation...
...Jerry Costello of Illinois -- are known to have sons involved in Operation Desert Shield. By comparison, in 1970 there were 74 congressional children serving in Vietnam or elsewhere. But the White House and Congress these days are largely insulated from the familial consequences of their decisions about how to confront Saddam. It's one thing to be concerned about the men and women you might send into battle. It's another to be related to them...
Back in Washington, the increased Democratic strength in Congress promises even more polarized policymaking. In the House, Speaker Foley is likely to press populist bills on health care, civil rights and an income tax surcharge on millionaires. Foley's strategy is to confront Bush with an unpalatable choice: if the President signs the legislation, Democrats will get the credit, but if he vetoes the bills, Democrats will gain an issue for 1992. Senate majority leader George Mitchell, who like Foley had leaned toward conciliation with the White House in the past two years, will take the offensive now that Bush...
Just as the sun slips toward the Pacific, they gather along Latin America's northernmost fringe. Several hundred white, mainly lower-middle-class Southern Californians arrive in dusty pickups and weathered sedans to confront what they say is a criminal invasion of America. They park single file along a marshy field on the San Diego-Tijuana border. Soon the men and women are engaged in chitchat typical of a social event. Their crimson bumper stickers proclaim WE WANT ORDER ON OUR BORDER, a demand that nearby U.S. Border Patrol agents work hard to enforce. Some of the 800 officers...