Word: dilemmas
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...westerns, ate on a TV tray and fished for trout in a stocked stream. What could you expect from a soldier who ranked 61st in a West Point class of 164? How we miss him. He did not panic every time the Soviets threatened. He foresaw the hideous nuclear dilemma we face today. He brought people together...
...objectives that we have come to look at the situation." So declared former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as he arrived at San Salvador's Ilopango airport last week accompanied by the eleven other members of the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America. Kissinger had posed the essential dilemma for U.S. policy in the region: how to halt Marxist subversion while securing democratic rule for nations plagued with dictatorships of both the left and the right...
...Francisco, which has 289 AIDS victims, a group surpassed only by New York City's 988, is trying to ease the dilemma by helping finance two home-care plans: a visiting-nurse program and Shanti ("inner peace" in Sanskrit), a volunteer organization that provides peer counseling for the terminally ill and their families and runs two residences for AIDS patients. San Francisco is also planning to open a special, long-term treatment center...
...syndicated newspaper article, William H. Sullivan, who was U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines from 1973 to 1977 and then Ambassador to Iran until April 1979, wrote of "the parallels between the American dilemma in Manila today and our problems in Tehran in 1978." He warned of the "dangerous similarity" of U.S. ties in each case to "an authoritarian leader without a popular base of support." In an interview with TIME, Sullivan said that the U.S. should encourage Marcos "to make an amicable deal with the moderate opposition in order to restore democracy, neutralize the small but growing ranks...
...process of making Labor "the party of the past." Waller's analysis shows that since the 1970s Britain has become a society of skilled workers and homeowners, a middle-class nation that no longer can respond to the Labor Party's outmoded proletarian appeal. Kinnock's dilemma is that he must change his party without risking either a split in its ranks or a revolt by the suspicious hard-line left that gave him its support. The new leader likes to say, "I can work with anyone in the Labor Party who wants...