Word: harasser
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many of those situations in which professors were harassed, the administration acted in a cowardly way. In effect and sometimes in word the administration said 'they have a right to harass.' That was ludicrous," said Ford Professor of Social Sciences Daniel Bell...
...Dien Bien Phu, 18 miles from the Laotian border. It is difficult to imagine the battlefield as it appeared 30 years ago. The French chose Dien Bien Phu because its strategic location seemed to make it the ideal place to cut Viet Minh supply lines and thus to harass Giap's troops into submission. Protected by mountains on all sides, it seemed impregnable. Against heavy odds, Ho's Viet Minh army laid siege for 55 days. Finally, on May 7, 1954, after hauling whole batteries of heavy artillery to seemingly impossible mountain redoubts and tunneling to within yards...
...Sandinistas struggle to preserve their revolution, U.S.-backed contras continue to harass the regime from across Nicaragua's northern and southern borders. The largest of the counterrevolutionary groups, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (F.D.N.), based in Honduras, claims 8,000 troops. Although able to move freely over thousands of square miles of northern Nicaragua, the contras are worried that their operations will be restricted if U.S. aid is cut off. Correspondent Ricardo Chavira and Photographer Bob Nickelsberg accompanied an F.D.N. patrol on a six-day foray that took them some 30 miles into the desolate hills of Nicaragua...
...campaign has long made Congress uneasy, but up to now a fragile coalition has accepted the Administration's arguments for it. These are, in essence, that aid to the contras'war is both justified to punish Nicaragua for supporting the leftist insurrection in neighboring El Salvador, and necessary to harass the Sandinistas into giving up their ambitions of fomenting Communist revolution throughout Central America. Only two weeks ago, the Senate tacked $21 million for the contras onto an appropriations bill for famine relief in Africa, which was slated for quick approval...
...specified the purpose as interdicting the flow of arms from Nicaragua to the Communist-led rebels in El Salvador. Hit-and-run raids by the contras could not accomplish that, however, and so, by April 1982, the goal of U.S. backing for the contras was redefined. It became to "harass" the Sandinistas so greatly that they would find the export of Marxist revolution too painful to continue and therefore would give...