Word: interventionist
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...Latin America, Cuba was for a long time perceived as an exporter of revolution; but suspicions have lessened with the cooling of Castro's interventionist activities in the region and the broadening of economic ties. Many regimes in the Caribbean area - including the governments of Jamaica, Grenada, Guyana and Nicaragua - look to Cuba as both a societal role model and a source of aid. To Castro himself, Cuba is a progressive, socialist and "Latin African" nation whose revolutionary achievements give it a right to act as a spokesman for the Third World...
...Defense requests and Congress votes funds for accounting categories "military construction" and This same schism between purpose and spending exists in the Congressional committee structure the Armed Services Committee determines the military budget, the House International Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee articulate our supposedly non-interventionist, peace-loving foreign policy...
...codes with its own, often unreasoning, standards of conduct; but it also widened the choices open to a later, more calculating, generation of students. John C. Marquand, senior tutor of Dudley House since 1970, describes the change as a shift in the College administration, a move to a "less interventionist" policy regarding student' private lives. Students now have less of a feeling of being manipulated by authority, he says...
...special-interest groups. By offering redress to people with no special political clout, says Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe, judges give otherwise disenfranchised groups a voice in the way public funds are spent and Government affects their lives. Activist Tribe complains that what really irks critics of an interventionist judiciary is not activism per se but the (often) liberal results. Says he: "The myth of the Imperial Judiciary is nothing but a mask for injustice." Or, as Civil Rights Lawyer Joseph Rauh puts it: "The Imperial Judiciary is simply the conservative doctrine of inaction dressed up in $5 words...
Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy: Also in D.C., brings together 40 different national groups from the National Council of Churches and the ADA to the Longshoremen's union, to push for a peaceful, non-interventionist, humanitarian and open foreign policy...