Word: facto
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...READ Margaret Atwood's own voice--as opposed to one of the many voices of her fictional and poetic personae--is to see the feminist motto "the personal is political" in a new light. Atwood once described herself in an interview as a "de facto feminist," taking the position that every intelligent woman is a feminist--but she can also argue from the standpoint of a crusader for women's rights, a poet, a novelist, a pioneering critic of Canadian literature, a Canadian nationalist, and an Amnesty International activist. The essays in Second Words emanate from all these Atwoods...
...less than one percent of the academic research funded by the Defense Department will be considered "sensitive," an agency official says. Although a policy directive has not been formally issued. "The proposal has been approved by an internal Defense Department committee, and accepted as de facto policy, the official says...
...coincidence of Alvarez's ouster with the start of the latest U.S. exercises raised immediate speculation about Washington's role, if any, in what amounted to a Honduran housecleaning. For the past two years, Alvarez has been accused of being the de facto strongman of Honduras, pulling both military and political strings behind the folksy, conservative Suazo. The charge was one that Alvarez took no great pains to deny. A colonel when he took over as armed forces chief, he arranged his own series of promotions to five-star general. Fiercely antiCommunist, he launched a harsh antiterrorist campaign...
...national crisis that had long threatened to be mortal. The primary obstacle to peace in Lebanon had been the presence of two foreign armies-the Syrian "peacekeeping" force and the military arms of the P.L.O.-each in its own right stronger than the Lebanese army. This de facto occupation had stripped the central government of its authority and created the conditions for strife among the religious and ethnic communities of Lebanon. The Israeli invasion added a third foreign army and, in the worst case, threatened to create, in southern Lebanon, a new zone of occupation...
...that would feature the topic of power sharing for the simple reason that it objects to the idea of any group shooting its way to power. But whether the Administration likes it or not, the leftists, by virtue of the one third of the countryside they control, have de facto power. Furthermore, their strength shows no signs of abating despite increased U.S. aid and training to the Salvadoran army. In short, peace will forever remain elusive in El Salvador without an agreement with the leftists...