Word: interventionist
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Institute for Policy Studies, Washington. One of the biggest of the left-wing think tanks, and for years the most visible. I.P.S. grew up in the 1960s, and the 1980s have not been congenial to its anti-interventionist and environmentalist policies...
...specter conjured up by the President is a frightening one, and though exaggerated, it contains elements of truth. But last week it failed to move a majority of the U.S. House of Representatives. In a vote that had been billed as a vital test of the Administration's interventionist foreign policy, the Democratic-controlled House rejected, at least for the moment, the President's request to give $100 million in aid to the Nicaraguan contras, who seek to overthrow the Sandinista regime. "The Administration deserved to have its nose bloodied on this," said Democratic Congressman Les Aspin of Wisconsin. "They...
...impossible to believe that Crocker, the rest of the State Department, the CIA and the more hawkish members of Congress have been so utterly deceived by Savimbi. However, there is a real reason for the ostensibly plausible yet strategically reckless rationalization for propping up the new interventionist cause celebre: defense of South African hegemony over mineralrich Namibia...
DEMOCRACY IS ALL the rage in Washington this week. Faced with a phenomenal popular revolt against longtime U.S. client Ferdinand Marcos, the Reagan Administration reluctantly adopted an alledgedly interventionist policy. Yet it is in spite of American policy--long one of malign neglect--that the Philippine people have finally won their freedom...
...social side, we believe very firmly in the maintenance of the universal social programs designed to care for those in our society who require assistance. That is in the Progressive Conservative tradition. On the economic side, there is in my judgment a role for government that is less interventionist than that of the Liberals and the socialists, a role that creates a climate in which the entrepreneurial genius of the private sector can do what it does best, namely create new wealth, new possibilities of employment. So there is no contradiction in terms. Progressive Conservative is an unusual party name...