Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The question is how long Lebanon's new overlord, Syria, will remain patient. Syrian President Hafez Assad has shown little interest in direct intervention in Lebanese politics. But Karami seemed to suggest that the Syrians might start exerting more pressure to break the deadlock.
In 1979 reformist military officers ousted Molina's successor, General Carlos Humberto Romero Mena. A year later Duarte became the junta President. He helped begin a sweeping land reform and the nationalization of local banks and export industries, thereby further alienating the oligarchy. Conservatives began calling Duarte a "watermelon...
The Chinese are still uneasy about the role of foreign capital in their economy, which was opened up to Western investment in 1979. Hammer's deal almost fell apart a number of times, only to be saved by the personal intervention of Deng Xiaoping, China's top man...
The Wall Street Journal, which has broadened its definition of business-related coverage, won for international reporting by Foreign Editor Karen Elliott House, 36, who probed Middle East politics in interviews with Jordan's King Hussein, and for commentary by Vermont Royster, 70, who also won in 1953 for...
But as the media takes a firmer hold over people's lives, and the idea of mind control is particularly in vogue, the world of semiotics is changing. There is a split both within the academics and those, like Blonsky, that have gone out into the marketplace. "Things are mutating...