Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dismayed by the worsening situation and the potential for even greater carnage should the shaky coalition government collapse, the U.N.'s Boutros-Ghali has once again called for foreign intervention. Few observers would dispute that Burundi needs help. But the Secretary-General's proposal for a quick-reaction force based...
Weighed against these threatening factors is the uplifting picture of the universe that the ubiquity of life and consciousness implies. A cosmos that starts out in a sterile Big Bang and gradually progresses through complex chemistry to life, intelligence and culture--and sentient beings who can look back and reflect...
To the extent that is true, police have had to pull themselves in two disparate directions--tougher and softer, as the COPS program in New Orleans illustrates. Tougher means more aggressive intervention. "If we see somebody we don't know, we ask them what they're doing there," says Compass...
He is expected to talk about American military intervention in Bosnia and the decision to move beyond purely diplomatic methods.
THE U.S. ARMED FORCES HAVE OFTEN INterfered with problems when they should not have. But in this case they are entering a war in which people do need their help. If it were not for the U.S. intervention, the slaughter of innocents would continue. FRANK FLORES Bethany, Oklahoma