Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was no immediate danger of a war between the two countries, but the flare-up was yet another sign of the tense atmosphere in a region that is increasingly aboil with Marxist guerrilla activity. The aims, ambitions and military preparations of the Sandinista regime worry Washington and Nicaragua's neighbors. Says Lieut. General Wallace Nutting, head of the Panama-based U.S. Southern Command: "All of a sudden, Nicaragua has become a military base of substantive potential. It's a whole new universe...
...armed incidents along the Honduran border continue to occur, the Sandinistas have been studying the possibility of declaring an internal "state of war" that would allow the government still greater justification for military mobilization and provide a popular rallying point. Meanwhile, the danger of a real "state of war" increases as Nicaragua's armed forces grow...
Lynn Lundy of Stella Maris smiles and says firmly, "I haven't seen anything, and I don't want to." Yet death is democratic. Eight-year-old Jonathan lives in a big house on the best side of town, and until recently the closest he came to danger was hearing a big boom one night and having a bad dream about it. The major complaint in his stately neighborhood was the stink from the nearby offal factory. Now the complaint is more topical. A few weeks ago, the Rev. Robert Bradford, M.P, was shot to death in a suburban community...
...wonder, in fact, if they begin to love their parents a little less for the multitude of responsibilities imposed on them. Or, for that matter, if they love them less for the danger they all are in. In primitive worlds the high infant mortality rate is said to have inured parents against caring for their children too much. Does the same obtain in places where there is a high parent mortality rate? Perhaps the children begin to withhold some of their love from their parents as a pre-emptive strike against the assassins. It would be reasonable. It would...
...like hens: "Are you crazy?" The attitudes of most Israeli children fall somewhere between the extremes of Hadara and those girls. The majority deal with their hatreds and fears on a case-by-case basis, and they are likely to shift their opinions according to the nearness of the danger...