Word: covert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...atrocity. However, dumping vodka and painting over our red cars are ridiculous acts of protest. The shooting down of the plane was in part a result of the increased tensions between the Soviet Union and the U.S. If relations between the two nations improved, the weapons buildup and covert activities would diminish, thus lessening the chance for more of these tragic incidents...
...ideological justification for a Soviet attempt to harness the anti-Americanism of resurgent Islam, and so subsume religious fundamentalism within the framework of East-West rivalry. Such a doctrine also creates intellectual justification for overt support of left wing Muslim fundamentalists, which groups have in the past received only covert assistance...
...both coasts of Nicaragua, and as many as 3,000 to 4,000 American troops will participate at any one time in war games in neighboring Honduras. As the vote drew near, Congress was further roiled by leaks appearing in the press that the Administration planned to expand its covert actions against Nicaragua and possibly to increase the number and activities of U.S. military advisers in El Salvador. All this contributed to a public impression that the Administration is now pushing toward a military solution to the threat of spreading Communist influence in Central America, at the risk of involving...
...economic and diplomatic efforts, irritated by the difficulties of winning congressional approval for their strategy and feeling themselves under pressure to produce measurable progress in Central America before the 1984 presidential campaign gets fully under way, some White House advisers are pushing for a combination of military moves and covert activity that might yield speedy results...
...voted only about half of the money the Administration sought. Also during the spring, the right-wing contras stepped up their hit-and-run raids into Nicaragua from bases and training camps in Honduras. By then, it was public knowledge that the CIA was heavily involved in these "covert" operations, training the contras and supplying them with arms. Restive over this far from secret war, congressional leaders demanded to know where the Administration's Nicaraguan policy was heading. With criticism also building of the Administration's approach in El Salvador, Clark in June began another inter-agency review, which quickly...