Word: napoleons
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...against itself that has left people so terrorized and divided that it may be impossible ever to heal the rift. Ask anyone what the country needs most, and the answer comes quick as a rifle's report: peace. But peace has many last names. President Jose Napoleon Duarte and his U.S. supporters declare that they want peace with democracy. The armed forces vow to accept only peace with national security. And the Marxist-led F.M.L.N. says its goal is peace with freedom from U.S. interference. A former government official despairs of ending the war. "This is a country that...
...murder rocked El Salvador last week. Herbert Anaya Sanabria, 33, president of the nongovernmental Human Rights Commission, was about to drive two of his children to school last week when two men approached him. Armed with revolvers, they shot him dead, then fled in a pickup truck. President Jose Napoleon Duarte suggested that leftists may have fired the shots to sabotage peace talks, but most Salvadorans assumed that a right-wing death squad was responsible. Leftist rebels broke off peace talks on the ground that they would "contribute to the creation of false hopes." The rebels did not, however, rule...
...antiheroic style. Here is the Duke of Wellington, who described his soldiers as the "scum of the earth" and often had them flogged. But his meticulous planning and preparation enabled his disciplined troops to defeat Napoleon at Waterloo...
Hitler? Yes, there are asymmetries in Keegan's battle plan. Though Hitler was indeed the German supreme commander in World War II, he is the only civilian political leader in this quartet. He is also the only loser. If we study Hitler, why not Napoleon instead of Wellington? Conversely, the modern analogue to Wellington is not Hitler but Dwight Eisenhower. But Keegan is following a somewhat unorthodox method, not deriving a theory from his examples but choosing his examples to illustrate a thesis...
President Jose Napoleon Duarte's U.S.-supported Christian Democratic government, which has voiced its commitment to pursuing peace talks with the rebels and eliminating human rights abuses, said it would investigate Anaya's death and bring those responsible to justice...