Word: interventionist
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...Augusto Cesar Sandino Airport, the Pope was plunged into national politics. While the sunburned Pontiff stood in the blazing heat for an airport welcoming ceremony, Sandinista junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra delivered a 25-minute greeting, in which he blasted U.S. foreign policy and warned that "the footsteps of interventionist boots echo threateningly in the White House and the Pentagon." He told the Pope that the Nicaraguan people were "martyred and crucified every day, and we demand solidarity with right on our side." Ortega also went out of his way to tell the Pope that "Christian patriots and revolutionaries...
...interventionist force," insists R.D.F. Commander Lieut. General Robert Kingston. But in fact the R.D.F. does have plans for various contingencies, ranging from mere intelligence sharing to armed assistance if a beleaguered government in the gulf were to call upon the U.S. to provide it. The trouble is, U.S. analysts are hard pressed to imagine a moderate Arab state subjecting itself to-and surviving-the humiliation of having to call the Marines to its rescue. Therefore, says William Quandt, a leading American expert on the Middle East now at the Brookings Institution in Washington, "the gulf states are looking for sources...
...this interventionist approach to childbirth that enrages Harrison above all else. What she saw at her hospital bears no resemblance to the gradual, intimate, rhythmic process she found so moving during home births. "Childbirth is a surgical procedure," she is told in training. Though Harrison believes that each deli very has its own "natural pace," births at the hospital are expected to follow the contours of an idealized graph of how labor is supposed to progress. When a woman departs from the curve, doctors turn to preordained procedures. They may speed things up by administering Pitocin, a labor-inducing drug...
...dangers of Communism and bad grammar, lampooning public figures and once describing U.N. headquarters as "a glass cigar box jam-packed with pompous do-gooders, nervy deadbeats, moochers, saboteurs, spies and traitors"; of pneumonia; in Norwalk, Conn. Schooled in controversy, Maury spent the early 1940s simultaneously turning out anti-interventionist, anti-F.D.R. tracts for the right-wing News and pro-interventionist, pro-F.D.R. views for the editorial page of liberal Collier's magazine. "An editorial writer," he explained, "is like a lawyer or a public relations man: his job is to make the best possible case...
...strong proponent of free enterprise, a non-interventionist foreign policy and civil liberties for all minorities, Clark has picked up support from both conservative business interests and leftists attracted by his strong anti-draft and pro-gay rights stands...