Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the near religious fervor of black voters combined with enough support from white "lakefront liberals" to propel him to a second term last spring, Harold Washington predicted that he would serve 20 years as Chicago's first black mayor. But his bid to establish a political dynasty that would...
"The government's intervention at theuniversity has been, for us, like living throughthe third world war," he said. "They have calledus communists, they have called us terrorists, butthey are the real terrorists.
How, then, to break the psychological impasse? One way is to follow a strategy called intervention, which was pioneered in the early 1960s by Vernon Johnson, an Episcopal priest in a Minneapolis suburb. In intervention, family members, friends and co-workers directly confront the alcoholic to shatter his carefully nurtured...
After the American intervention in 1983, the streets of the capital, St. George's, were filled with talk that U.S. working permits would be doled out like so many chocolate bars. Many even signed a petition urging Washington to annex the island. Those giddy hopes have passed, and Grenadians have...
Although most attention focused on Gorbachev's treatment of the past, he also included some significant remarks about the present. Announcing a potentially dramatic shift in Moscow's relations with its East bloc satellites, Gorbachev declared that "all ((Communist)) parties are completely and irreversibly independent." He stressed this point again...