Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hopes of an accommodation with the U.S. To a crowd of 75,000 celebrating the fourth anniversary of the overthrow of Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan Leader Daniel Ortega Saavedra announced that his government "had decided to make a new effort to contribute to peace" and was willing to join in the multilateral regional discussions that the U.S. has sought. Ortega proposed a six-point peace plan that would prohibit arms sales to both the government and the rebels in El Salvador, as well as military aid to insurgents elsewhere in Central America...
...Diego into Pacific waters off Honduras and Nicaragua. It carries more than 70 aircraft. Its battle group includes seven other ships: a cruiser, a guided-missile destroyer, two standard destroyers, a frigate, an oiler and a fast support ship. The battleship New Jersey, now off Southeast Asia, may join the Ranger in about three weeks...
...noise is only one of the features that make Japanese politics different. Distinctions can be found in matters large and small. Few Japanese join the country's political parties, while candidates often wear white gloves to show that their hands are clean of corruption. Although the country has trappings familiar to any Western democracy?a constitution, a parliament, a Cabinet and a Prime Minister?Japan's political practices are definitely homegrown...
...bases and 51,550 American troops on its soil, Japan has become the keystone of U.S. defense strategy in the Pacific. When the U.S. called on its allies to boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Japan was among the first to join. It also followed the U.S. lead in imposing economic sanctions against Poland...
...shrewd and scheming warmonger. Most historians, however, contend that in spite of, or indeed because of, his unassuming pacifism, the unworldly scholar was often unable to dominate his nation's ruthless army. In 1941, for example, Japan's leaders turned to Hirohito while deliberating whether to join the war. Without explanation, the poker-faced monarch proceeded to recite a gnomic waka (a traditional 31-syllable poem) composed by his grandfather, the Meiji emperor: "On the seas surrounding all quarters of the globe/ All people are kin to each other/ Why then do winds and waters of conflict/ Disturb...