Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The idea of White House intervention between American Airlines and its 21,000 striking flight attendants did not originate with Clinton. Instead it appeared to come from AA's management. On Monday, hours after rejecting a call by flight attendants for a presidential emergency board, American sent a signal to...
While Clinton's intervention may have forced management back to the bargaining table, it leaves unresolved the cost-cutting issues that gave rise to the dispute. None of that mattered, however, as jubilant flight attendants scrambled back to work. Among those holiday travelers heaving sighs of relief was Lindsey himself...
The story in Somalia is even sadder. Behind intervention there was the notion that the world community should not allow a society to self-destruct and a people to be decimated. Yet after conflicts with General Aidid, the U.N. operation that saved thousands from starvation and was restoring stability to...
As things now stand, Haiti will move deeper into the grip of a military dictatorship and Somalia will slide back into chaos. The U.N. will have shown itself incapable of restoring usurped democracy, and unable to manage large-scale humanitarian intervention. The failure of these operations will not neccasarily preclude...
Obviously, this was an idealistic goal. Nobody thought the world would suddenly become a cradle of justice and peace. But Somalia and Haiti represented cases of blatant abuse where intervention seemed reasonable.