Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...action against those guilty of crimes and the prosecution to the extent possible of past offenders." This wording was primarily the work of Kirkland, who has been incensed by the unpunished murder of two AFL-CIO representatives in El Salvador in 1981, and it pointed to a very real dilemma...
...cutoff resulted in a victory for a Communist regime that would kill even more indiscriminately. But if Salvadoran rightists do not believe that there is a risk of an aid cutoff, how can they ever be persuaded to curb their terrorism? Said one commissioner: "We never really resolved the dilemma of the death squads vs. the Gulag...
...economic dilemma is far from Bourguiba's only problem. Since 1956, when he played the leading role in winning Tunisia's independence from France, Bourguiba has ruled his nation without interruption, becoming the object of what amounts to a personality cult. Last week's riots, however, suggest that he cannot depend on such unquestioning adulation in the future. "The kids in the streets are too young to remember Bourguiba as the hero of independence," says a foreign analyst. "For them, he is the paramount symbol of the status quo, and they can curse...
...such thing. At the very least, it puts on display real, articulate people whose company one mightily enjoys sharing. It proclaims Jeremy Irons as one of the finest young actors. It refines a dishwater dilemma, accommodating one's ideals to one's spouse, into a sparkling tonic. It marks the return of radiance -verbal, intellectual, emotional, theatrical - to a Broadway too long in the dark...
...American dilemma in Lebanon is symptomatic of our inability to understand our role as world managers. Once again the American giant has fumbled, this time by putting the Marines into a complex and hostile environment without first deciding on a plan of action...