Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The sentiment was echoed later by Secretary of State George Shultz, who warned that if Congress failed to approve an aid package for the contras, the U.S. eventually would face "an agonizing choice about the use of American combat troops" in Central America. It was one of Shultz's toughest...
During the critical week that Goode weighed his options, he stayed in continual touch with Move through emissaries. The mayor said repeated efforts to negotiate an agreement failed. Actually, according to Bob Owens, a crisis- intervention worker, unsophisticated Move members are not really equipped to negotiate. Says Owens: "They don...
By then police had obtained warrants charging four occupants of the Move headquarters -- Frank James Africa, Conrad Hampton Africa, Ramona Africa and Theresa Brooks Africa -- with parole violation, contempt of court, illegal possession of firearms, and making terroristic threats. To facilitate the execution of the warrants, authorities on Sunday cordoned...
Barring divine intervention on Smith's behalf, the undefeated Radcliffe lights will claim the lightweight championship in season competition the Black and White triumphed by a 10-second margin.
Ervin, a judge in North Carolina for 14 years, arrived on the Hill in 1954. In his first major Senate speech, he castigated the maverick Wisconsin Republican, Joseph McCarthy. Although his civil libertarianism and antipathy to Richard Nixon would again endear him to liberals in the 1970s, Ervin was profoundly...