Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debacle in Panama is a reminder that the U.S., to its everlasting credit but also to its occasional grief, was never cut out for imperialism. Even the vestige of such an adventure at the beginning of the 20th century is enough to complicate American domestic politics and foreign policy alike at the end of the century. Teddy Roosevelt not only dug the big ditch but helped carve out the little nation around it by supporting secessionists in a malaria-ridden province of Colombia. But no good deed in the pursuit of empire goes unpunished. The legacy that T.R. left...
...when Bush found himself in his first foreign policy crisis, the threat had nothing to do with the Soviet Union or its minions. The Monroe Doctrine, which proclaims the U.S.'s determination to keep the real imperialists from Europe out of the Western hemisphere, is irrelevant. Noriega is Uncle Sam's creature as well as his nemesis. Some Administration officials made a brief, silly attempt last week to blame the Kremlin for exploiting the trouble. Their only evidence: TASS, standing the story on its head, reported out of Panama that Noriega's opponents had cheated at the polls and fomented...
...reporters then turned their questioning to Goldman's thoughts on who would succeed Gorbachev and to his opinion of President Bush's foreign policy...
...represent, even at the peak of anti-ROTC sentiment. The Crimson's editorial on the issue, in conjunction with the numerous dissents by its editors that accompanied it, reflected the honest confusion and disagreement of many students on campus, all concerned by the same questions of financial hardship, U.S. foreign policy, discrimination within the military, academic freedom and freedom of choice. The Crimson's coverage was, for the most part, thorough and interesting. I ask only that it work harder to assure a level of accuracy appropriate to a newspaper of its great tradition and prestige. Joel D. Hornstein...
...percent of Harvard students were form private schools; that compares to 34 percent now. Eighty-eight percent of students were from New England and Atlantic states, compared to 53 percent today. Three percent hailed from Western states, compared to 15 percent today. Only a handful of students came from foreign countries--between .1 and .4 percent--and today foreign students comprise 6 percent of the student body...