Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...answer is that under the right circumstances, the trade can be made quite easily. Human beings, for the most part, are not idealogues. What they generally want is to be able to enjoy family, comfort, safety and good health. Though it would be comforting to explain the departure of the 50 Soviets by suggesting that their Soviet upbringing didn't foster the lust for freedom possessed by native-born Americans, the truth is more troubling. For vast numbers of people the government is a trivial, background feature in the daily struggle to attain happiness and security...
This is not so much an attack on the United States as an attempt to explain how those 50 who left in December could make the decision they made. Some were people on the fringes, unable to attain the standard of living that lured them here. Some were frustrated artists who, no longer restrained by government, found they were restrained by an inhospitable market that provided no buyers for their work. Some were plain scared and homesick...
Worried that the new funding levels might embarrass the President, the Administration prepared a number of elaborate statements to explain the cuts. It argued that massive infusions for capital purchases -- such as helicopters, surveillance equipment and laboratory gear -- need not be repeated each year and that funds for education and treatment should be "stretched out" over two years. The White House pointed out that although proposed funding was being reduced, total spending to fight drugs in 1988 will still be 2 1/2 times as large as in 1981, when it totaled $1.2 billion...
...government's response to the ad was swift. By midnight it had extended emergency press regulations to forbid publication of "any advertisement or report calculated to improve or promote the public image or esteem of an organization which is unlawful." Likewise forbidden were attempts to praise, defend, explain or justify the actions of illegal political groups. The import of the new rules was clear: any positive mention of the A.N.C. would be judged "subversive" and subject editors to a $9,000 fine, a ten-year prison term or closure of their publications...
Adnan Khashoggi and Manucher Ghorbanifar explain how they maneuvered to set up sales of U.S. weapons to Iran...