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...Raisin in the Sun was written 25 years ago the question arises as to whether such a play can be possible today. The topical concerns abortion and housing in narrow terms, and hypocrisy and racism in broader are no less relevant today. But the themes would not, in all likelihood, receive the same warm and disinterested treatment Probably no one, and certainly few Black Americans, could write with the same faith about the condition of Black people today...
...with the opposite meaning, "reactive." It is used to describe a major change in Washington's approach to the scourge of terrorism directed at U.S. targets. Rather than react after an attack, the U.S. plans to adopt a much more aggressive policy that would establish in advance the likelihood of reprisals and would even permit pre-emptive strikes against suspected terrorists. Said Secretary of State George Shultz at the White House last week: "I don't think that purely defensive postures are adequate. We must think through other aspects of this problem, and we're doing that...
...extremely active imagination. If not, if the book's plot has some basis in fact, then the machinations of national intelligence communities pose a serious threat to the precariously perched Persian Gulf regimes. Indeed, Bulliet says in the book's jacket notes, "At the present time, the likelihood of a major crisis developing in the Gulf region is very high...
Despite their studied neutrality, U.S. officials are aware that a D'Aubuisson victory would in all likelihood spell disaster for the Administration's effort to pry more Salvadoran military assistance from Congress. The possibility of a Duarte win, on the other hand, raises the specter of a backlash from the death squads and a more rapid decline for El Salvador's battered economy. Says a State Department official: "Duarte's principal problem is the business community. He's got to earn their trust. He needs them...
Despite the likelihood of McGovern's demise today, the candidate has been throwing himself into Massachusetts and winning publicity by stridently calling President Ronald W. Reagan "the most dangerous man ever to occupy the White House...