Word: coverts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nicaragua, the U.S. has waged what is probably the least secret "covert operation" in history, helping the contras against the Sandinistas...
...cultural revolution within their own homes. The focus of this underground world is that icon of blithe energy, Michael Jackson. On the black market in Tehran, his cassettes fetch up to $50, and videotapes of the Gloved One rent for up to $100 a night. Many houses regularly become covert discos. In response, detachments of Islamic Guards, acting on informers' tips, have been raiding homes and confiscating tapes. The government apparently fears that the Jackson clubs could influence Iranian youth to turn against the regime's fundamentalist dogma. With good reason. "When the regime treats a smile as an anti...
...nation to protect itself from foreign aggression. "Support for freedom fighters is self-defense," he said, and "totally consistent" with the charters of the Organization of American States and the United Nations. The President seemed to be building a legal case for Washington's continued use of covert--and maybe even overt--aid in conflicts that it deems the result of Soviet mischief-making...
...past and present, in American social and political patterns. These might be called defacto affirmative action. Sometimes these practices--practices that modify and circumvent the so-called natural forces of the market place--are political, and at other times they take the form of "social power" and are thus covert or informally political. Since the Civil War, politics in American counties, cities, states and at the federal level have involved the skewing of extensive social resources for long periods to specific ethnic and interest groups, via the mechanism of patronage politics and politics of spoils. Among the benefits affirmatively targeted...
These instances suffice to illustrate the point that Mansfield and Murray and other New Right critics of affirmative action fail to grasp--that affirmative assistance, whether over or covert, has characterized important aspects of American social and political processes well before the evolution of contemporary affirmative action polices for Blacks. Hispanics, and women. While not usually declared as preferential practices for a given class of persons (though occupational and educational preferences for war veterans were and are so declared), what I call de facto affirmative action amounts to very much the same thing. And, like current practices, the de facto...