Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter Administration officials vehemently reject Kissinger's complaint that they overthrew Somoza. The Sandinistas did that themselves. All the U.S. did was to administer a diplomatic coup de grâce in order to end the civil war. To preserve the status quo in Iran or Nicaragua-i.e...
TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott last week reported from Havana these conclusions on the summit and its consequences: "Castro has clearly succeeded in his main objectives. At the very least, Cuba has won the appearance of a ringing endorsement from the Third World of its military intervention in Africa. Though...
MICHAEL BOSKIN, 33. When he was an undergraduate at Berkeley in the 1960s, Boskin remembers, the young were radicals and the older people conservatives. In his profession now, he finds the alignments almost exactly reversed-because of the disillusionment of the students of yesterday. Says he: "The older generation held...
To dismiss the fact that Cuba played a crucial role in Nicaragua's war is not only foolish but an insult to our intelligence. Regardless of Somoza's dictatorial regime, such intervention should not have been permitted by the OAS. When this country's back is against...
Perhaps the biggest factor in the resort's decline is man's intervention with nature. One of the many barrier islands off the U.S.'s Atlantic and Gulf coasts, Miami Beach is vulnerable to waves, winds and the natural ebb and flow of its fragile sands. During...