Word: facto
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This insurgency, and those in Cambodia, Angola and Nicaragua, pointed to a new form of containment, a kind of ex post facto containment: harassment of Soviet expansionism at the limits of empire. There is an echo here of the old 1950s right-wing idea of "rolling back" Communism. But with a difference. This is not the reckless--and toothless--call for reclaiming the core Soviet possessions in Eastern Europe, which the Soviets claim for self-defense and, more important, which they are prepared to use the most extreme means to retain. This is a challenge to the peripheral acquisitions...
...never again afford" notions promoted by Mao Tse-tung during the 1958-59 Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and '70s. Hu's observations about the turbulent past highlighted China's current embrace of a new economic philosophy stressing incentives and rewards, propounded by de facto Leader Deng Xiaoping. Correspondent David Aikman, a longtime student of Chinese affairs who has just completed a two-year assignment as TIME's bureau chief in Peking, provides these observations on the continuing changes in the world's most populous country...
Arafat's apparent desire to strike a deal with Hussein and shore up his standing with Arab moderates may have stemmed from the decision of several hard-line, Syrian-backed factions of the P.L.O. to boycott the last session of the Palestine National Council, its de facto parliament in exile. At the same time, Syria's drive to become the region's dominant Arab state may have led to a hardening of the will among moderates to reach a new consensus. In any case, the principal question still to be answered from the Hussein-Arafat agreement is how forthrightly...
...UNIVERSITY has formally recognized the practice of awarding credit for NROTC courses taken at MIT. The majority opinion attempts to cloak the obvious significance of this act by dismissing it as a legitimization of de facto policy. But any step of this kind, no matter how small, implicitly endorses the program and brings it one step closer to campus...
...Chernenko's stand-in at the top of the Kremlin pyramid: Politburo Member Mikhail Gorbachev, 53. During Gorbachev's highly publicized trip to Britain last December, officials in the Soviet entourage made no effort to dampen assertions in the British press that their boss was Moscow's de facto...