Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Emphasizing the urgency of the situation, President Carter brought both sides to the White House last week and pressed for a quick settlement-a rare and potentially risky presidential intervention. At week's end, bargaining talks were jolted by union rejection of the owners' proffered terms, and Labor...
Having won that round, the A.C.L.U. is not pushing hard for congressional intervention. Explains an official: "It's politically unrealistic to expect to derail Project Match." Another problem is resources. Last week A.C.L.U. lawyers won another decision in the Illinois Supreme Court on behalf of American Nazi Party members who...
It has been nearly two years since I last used this space to report on the nation's continuing postal problem. Since then, some progress has been made on legislation to deal with that problem, though it has not shown up in your mail service. Now even the legislative...
Among their responsibilities, the CIA and the other U.S. intelligence agencies have provided psychological profiles of such key leaders as Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin. Intelligence has supplied background information to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance on every step of his diplomacy in the Middle East...
Though covert operations involving intervention in the internal affairs of other countries are being reduced, some have been successful. The CIA-backed overthrow of Iran's Premier Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953 and of Guatemala's President Jacobo Arbenz the following year headed off threats of Communist takeovers and stabilized conditions...