Word: morass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Would Kennedy have become involved in Viet Nam to the extent that Johnson eventually did? The answer is unknowable. Many Kennedy loyalists think not, though their opinion is not disinterested. They point out that Kennedy was eminently a pragmatist; he would have seen the morass that lay in wait. Kennedy was a superbly self-assured man. He had already proved himself in war and had no need to do so again. With his keen sense of public relations, his loyalists believe, with his knowledge of the uses of the media, he would simply have decided that Viet...
Committee, immediately renewed his earlier calls for a withdrawal of the Marines. "They're serving no useful purpose," he said. "If it escalates, we're deeper in the morass, and we've got another Viet Nam on our hands." Though there is little chance, at least initially, that Congress will reverse its decision, the Administration will almost certainly come under far more pressure to justify the peace-keeping mission. "What it all underscores," said Maryland Republican Senator Charles Mathias, "is, what is our Middle East policy? We need a policy." Asked House Democrat David Obey, who had opposed the President...
This year's push for austerity, though, goes against the grain of most modern development strategies. Essentially, the IMF is telling the world's poorest countries to tighten their belts by cutting government deficits, raising exports, and keeping up payments on a morass of debts to Western banks. These conservative edicts seem to be inspired more by frustration with past approaches--which resulted in negligible growth and huge debts for most of the Third World--than by any renaissance in development economics. Even President Reagan has discovered that economic growth rarely takes place without extensive deficit spending by the government...
...reconnaissance planes over central Lebanon. Said a U.S. diplomat: "They have begun to realize that the righting in the Chouf is an avenue for Palestinian infiltration." At the same time, some Israeli military commanders have recently expressed concern that if the U.S. is now hopelessly involved in the Lebanese morass, Israel is to a large extent at fault. As a result, the Israelis may be prepared to help the U.S. in its efforts to help prop up the Gemayel government. Last week the Israeli government warned Lebanese Druze leaders that it would not stand idly by if the Druze...
...murders was now below 200 a month, down from an average of 500 a month in 1981. Said a State Department official: "That is still a hell of a lot of killing. It is not an entirely positive picture, but a defensible one." In El Salvador's political morass, expectations remain modest...