Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unto the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua precisely what it believes the Sandinistas are doing to the U.S.-supported government of El Salvador: aid the guerrillas who seek its overthrow. The strategy is to reach the point at which governments and insurgents in both El Salvador and Nicaragua will join in a ceasefire, followed by negotiations and then free elections...
Some students, especially from big cities think that Cambridge politics is small potatoes and not worth getting involved in, says Peter Choharis '83. But the Boston native insists students learn much more at a lower level. "The temptation especially as the presidential race gets nearer is to join a candidate like Mondale but if you instead work for a councilor or a state representative, you'll learn a lot more and have a lot more impact...
...active political participation can get a foot in the door at local politics by at least signing up to vote in the city. At registration, the Cambridge Election Commission representatives will have a table just under the red and white circus tent offering 18-year-olds the opportunity to join their rolls...
...qualities of sobriety, decency and steadiness that, along with those prodigious coal mines, allowed Britain to dominate the world for decades. The dark myth of British superiority persisted long after the country's decline, and led Britain in the 1950s to a disastrous delay in condescending to join the Common Market...
...prospects for European integration. Past attempts, like those of Napoleon and Hitler, were to unite Europe by war. There could be an economic depression of such magnitude that the Europeans would have to join forces. Or the rise of a magnetic personality who could dominate all of Europe. None of these would I look forward to. Perhaps the best thing is to trust in the slow progress of reason. -By Donald Morrison