Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Big Tobacco was under attack once again last week. The Federal Trade Commission formally charged the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (now a subsidiary of RJR Nabisco Inc.) with illegally misleading the public in purporting to summarize the results of a ten-year, $115 million U.S. Government-funded research study on...
During a nine month stint overseas, I was constantly placed in the position of having to defend America's foreign policy. The critics were not the usual anti-U.S. protagonists. Rather, they were generally self-described supporters of the U.S. The criticism was aimed not at such traditionally deplorable...
Agnes Varda's remarkable film Vagabond begins with Mona's end (she is found frozen to death in a ditch) and then recounts the last months of her life through a series of recollections by the people she met on her lonesome road, all of whose insights into her character...
Some critics blame the U.S. for the existence of just about all the world's non-Communist dictatorships. While it is true that many of these receive U.S. support, the forces that lead to dictatorship are usually beyond American control. Take Haiti. It may be possible to bring about a...
The Boston rally was one of 300 across the country in a call to action by a national group, the Pledge of Resistance. The pledge is a network of about 80,000 people who have promised to protest U.S. intervention in Central America. There are more than 65 pledge signers...