Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because some of the Communist-led guerillas are non-Communists who oppose President Diem's authoritarianism, such a war could hardly be waged in the name of democracy. Because many are South Vietnamese, American intervention would mean, at best, meddling in a civil war; at worst, suppressing a popular rebellion...
Well, at least impressively intricate. Last week's display -- more evolutionary than revolutionary -- involved the funneling of data on aircraft position, altitude, speed and identification from each of the regional air- traffic control centers to the FAA's Washington headquarters. There the information is merged into a manageable whole by...
Yale Law Professor Geoffrey Hazard, who was amember of Bok's ad hoc committee, said thatpresidential intervention "was uncommon" butlaudable.
Professors on both sides of the politicalspectrum agreed that Bok's intervention in thiscase ended the traditionally assumed independenceof the Law School, although they differed on theimpact of this change.
THE LAWS of national sovereignty are themselves based on the fundamental principle of self-determination. The same principle that underlay Nigerian claims to independence decades earlier could have been invoked to legitimate outside intervention on the Ibo's behalf. Indeed, the French government of Charles de Gaulle, before initiating covert...