Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is a good first step," said a State Department official. "We don't want to take away from the fact that this enhances the climate, but we need to see more." Officials noted with relief that Paul's removal "will improve the prospects for increased cooperation in the fight against drugs...
Haiti has become an increasingly important battleground in that fight. The Caribbean nation emerged as a drug capital last year after a U.S.-led crackdown partly choked off the Bahamas end of the pipeline to Miami. Forced to find a new route, Colombia-based narcotraficantes began flying cocaine to Haiti and transshipping it by boat to Miami. At first the clandestine incursion was little noticed. Endemic corruption and poverty made the island easy prey for the drug cartels. The country's mountains and countless coves are well suited for smugglers. Drug agents have mapped more than 20 small airstrips...
...have to fight harder for the balls that fall inside the 18," Captain Amy Winston said. "We let a few balls get by us today, skipping on the wet grass...
...only reasonable way for B.U. students to fight the new parietal rules is with militancy--protests, marches, tuition strikes, organized defiance, or even a student strike. A single protest will not move him, but consistent pressure sustained over a long period of time might. Supposedly, there is a plan afoot in the student government to encourage parents not to pay their bills in protest. Hard-ball tactics like these are the only way to talk to Silber...
...only justification of the fellow system is that Harvard's administration is trying to invest in some sort of ROTC system, letting these people go back and take over the fight, armed with a liberal arts education. But bullets don't bounce off scholars...