Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crop is grown in areas contested or controlled by the guerrillas, more and more landowners have come to see the virtue of cooperating with their enemies, whose right to represent local workers may be debatable, but whose destructive capability is not. The government of President Jose Napoleon Duarte, currently preparing for another round of peace talks with the rebels, seems to be ignoring the strange arrangement. The government's reckoning appears to be that a successful coffee harvest is in the greater national interest...
...Dover town records or in the town history books mentions Arnold or his famous poem. If the Arnolds stopped at the grandest of the town's hotels in 1851, it would have been the Lord Warden, a square, elegant, four- story structure where Dickens gave readings and Napoleon III stayed the night. In those days one would not simply hop a train after a ship ride, but would plan to spend some restful time in Dover before proceeding inland...
Central America produced some relatively good news. El Salvador's President Jose Napoleon Duarte won an election that was viewed from the outset as difficult even to hold, let alone conduct fairly. He perhaps endangered his own life by making a peace offering to the guerrillas. The direction of events was murkier in Nicaragua. The U.S. stirred up a storm among Congressmen and the nation's allies when it came out that the CIA had directed the mining of Nicaraguan harbors in order to discourage Soviet and Cuban arms shipments. Reagan encountered further trouble over U.S. funding of the contra...
...nominations for 1984 included the obvious, Ronald Reagan, who has been Man of the Year twice, and such makers of major news as Jose Napoleon Duarte, Geraldine Ferraro and the terrorist. TIME's readers, as ever, weighed in with dozens of candidates in hundreds of letters. In the end the editors chose Peter Ueberroth, impresario of the hugely successful Summer Olympics, because they saw in him the embodiment of the entrepreneurial spirit that is flourishing...
...just that he became El Salvador's first elected civilian President in half a century. Nor that he began peace talks with leftist rebels after five years of convulsive bloodletting. Those achievements, impressive as they are, only hint at why Jose Napoleon Duarte has come to embody the desperate hopes of a nation. His singular quality is his bravery...