Word: insurrectionism
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The violent clashes shattered Marcos' attempt to establish an atmosphere of calm. In a conciliatory speech to the assembly, Marcos promised that martial law would not be reintroduced. Under Amendment Six to the Constitution, the President can bypass the assembly in making crucial decisions during a state of national...
Security will be tight for the roughly 5,300 delegates and alternates (who will be heavily outnumbered by the 12,000 print and TV journalists expected to attend). Delegates will be escorted by the California Highway Patrol from San Francisco International Airport to their hotels, and they will be hauled...
As for the healing process, the deaths of the 600 people killed in the Amritsar clash will take years, perhaps generations, to erase. It is likely to become part of the permanent baggage of antagonism and distrust that afflict India's 746 million people of so many diverse races...
Supposedly, covert U.S. financing of the contra 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...
More specifically, whether the contra campaign continues or not, the U.S. cannot let the situation in Central America drift. The risks of Marxist revolution spreading through the isthmus are real. Ultimately that could lead to a destabilized and unfriendly Mexico on the nation's southern border, a flood of refugees...