Word: edward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When a Congressional fact-finding mission returned, however, filled with a strong host of doubters, most significantly his own Democratic colleague from Massachusetts, Edward Boland, O'Neill suddenly began to toe the Administration line. Inexplicably switching his position on what justifies an invasion, O'Neill seemed to be satisfied with having been let in on the facts of Grenada, and once in the fold, he now agrees with the Administration's policy...
Only four years ago, when Cuban-allied governments came to power almost simultaneously in Nicaragua and Grenada, Castro's clout seemed to be on the rise. But an erosion began the next year when voters in Jamaica elected conservative Edward Seaga to succeed leftist Michael Manley, a Castro ally, as Prime Minister. Jamaica has now swung so strongly against Cuba that Seaga sent troops to assist in the invasion of Grenada and last week expelled the last semiofficial Cuban on the island, a correspondent for the Cuban news service Prensa Latina. Seaga charged that the correspondent had participated with...
...Pacific region has been plagued by political instability: social unrest in the Philippines, uncertainty about the post-colonial status of Hong Kong and the assassination of key members of the South Korean government. "I am sure that none of the Asian economies will collapse because of political factors," said Edward Chen, of the University of Hong Kong, "but it may be difficult to keep up with past growth. It's never too early to worry...
...Harvard, the week was relatively quiet. The only activities here were a speech last Sunday by former Massachusetts congressman Father Robert Drinan and Wednesday's "Star Wars" debate between Edward Teller and Nobel laureate Hans Bethe...
Another admirer his dissertation adviser Markham Professor of Government Edward C. Banfield for example remembers an incident from the late 1960s. When Wilson served as chairman of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of MIT and Harvard...