Word: neighborly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Political sciencists couldn't have come up with a more perfect exercise in the use of military coercion. The territory of our treaty ally was invaded by her expansionist Soviet-bloc neighbor; the United States sent in troops as a warning that a deeper invasion would provoke the retaliation of our forces; the enemy withdrew without reaching its objective that threatened American national interest. It would all have been perfect, except for meddling by the Democratic congressmen who invited Managua to enjoy its Spring Break in Honduras...
...fact that the word "Vietnam" still stings should warn us to be cautious as we again try to help out a neighbor...
Siegel went running to the house of his classmate and neighbor, Joe Shuster, the equally penniless son of a tailor from Toronto, and the two of them worked all day -- Siegel writing and Shuster drawing -- until they had finished no fewer than twelve newspaper strips. Then they set forth to sell their new hero to the waiting world, which proved utterly indifferent. "A rather immature piece of work," said United Feature. "Crude and hurried," said Esquire Features. Even at Detective Comics, which finally bought the feature after much argument and delay to help launch Action Comics four years later, Publisher...
...firmly backed the failed effort to oust Noriega. "We want to reiterate our unqualified support for civilian constitutional rule in Panama," said White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. With 10,000 troops at U.S. Southern Command headquarters in Panama, Washington is sensitive to charges that it seeks to bully its neighbor. Yet Vice President George Bush talked tough while campaigning in South Carolina for the Republican presidential nomination. "We're not going to be pushed around about the defense of the Panama Canal," Bush said. "We will do whatever is necessary to protect American interests...
According to Gorbachev, the Soviets will not demand that Afghanistan be neutral and non-aligned, phrasing that was once standard when Kremlin officials spoke of their neighbor's future...