Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JERUSALEM--Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said yesterday that the Soviet Union's enthusiastic response to Israel's help in the return of four hijackers has given "new significance" to relations with Moscow...
...Foreign Ministry spokesperson Allon Liel said he was not aware of any written Soviet request for extradition, but he added, "I don't see any reason why we would want to hold them...
DEMOCRATIZATION: this has been the justification for Republican foreign policy initiatives in the Third World. It is loosely based upon the Monroe Doctrine and its alleged goal is to keep Communism out of the Western hemisphere. In reality, this is the rationale used by Republican administrations to support right-wing dictatorships in developing nations. This often means--as in the case of Nicaragua--trying to overthrow a democratically-elected government and replacing it with a band of right-wing mercenaries. This is the strategy for increasing AMERICAN CORPORATE INVESTMENT IN THE THIRD WORLD...
...dollar drops and the Dow plunges, the President- elect begins to assemble a team that he hopes can stop the slide. -- Nine sub- Cabinet jobs that will make a real difference on trade, foreign policy and the environment. -- Louisiana' s Bennett Johnston, a leading contender for Senate majority leader, says Bush' s economic plan is "absolute nonsense...
...groundwork for a negotiated change of government. Two weeks ago Sayed Mohammed Gulabzoi, the once powerful Interior Minister, was suddenly posted to Moscow as ambassador, a kind of exile. His apparent problem: opposition to compromise with the mujahedin. Last week another sympathizer of the hard-line Khalqi faction, Deputy Foreign Minister Abdul Ghaffer Lakanwal, defected to the U.S. while in New York to attend the U.N. General Assembly...