Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Reagan Administration has adopted a foreign policy of unwise intervention and rigid ideology which has failed in the Soviet Union, Nicaragua and South Africa, Democratic presidential contender Senator Joseph Biden said yesterday at the Kennedy School of Government.
Rabuka's takeover was slowly, if incredulously, accepted by Fijians, though some banks reported queues of people withdrawing money. Elsewhere the outcry against the coup was loud and clear. Prime Minister David Lange of New Zealand and Prime Minister Bob Hawke of Australia conferred by phone, then condemned the coup...
The most important factor in shaping the conduct and tone of a trial remains the guidance of the judge. But judges are worried that an incautious intervention from the bench might provide a basis for appeal. The result, says Gloria Allred, an activist Los Angeles attorney, is that "judges, who...
"It's not somebody from an ivory tower setting picking people out of the blue," Ramsey said. Project Life is "oriented around local leaders and a sophisticated self-help model. It relies on acceptance of local leaders," he added. "It's a low-tech, not a high-tech intervention."
In November of 1983, the fall of my freshman year, I was one of a few dozen Harvard students who trekked to Washington on a cold, gray autumn weekend to protest U.S. intervention in Central America. There were about 30,000 of us at the demonstration, which to my inexperienced...