Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Is such activism indeed desired by the Pope? One clue may be in the fact that after conferring with Archbishop Roach, Pope John Paul protested outside military intervention in El Salvador. But John Paul pointedly castigated terrorism by both the right and the left. (The U.S. bishops have not emphasized...
FINALLY, A STEP in the right direction. Last week, the Reagan Administration offered Nicaragua a new eight-point plan that would put a thaw to the Cold War that has developed in recent months between the two countries. In essence, the proposal calls for the U.S. to resume aid to...
"Unless there is intervention by an individual, perhaps a congressman," Lang said. "I think the process will roll on rather uninfluenced."
In brief, the argument goes something like this: Not only did the United States allow several crucial dominoes to fall by failing to finish the job in Vietnam, but those who opposed American intervention and worked for a removal of U.S. troops are culpable for the misery of the region...
UNDERGRADUATES, it seems, have not completely forgotten about politics, and they have not lost their fundamentally liberal, reformist skepticism. Simplistic comparisons to the radicalism that developed in the Sixties and exploded at places like Harvard often fail to address the difference in circumstances. Unmitigated Southern racism sparked the New Left...