Word: ordered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Teddy Roosevelt issued that paternalistic "corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine in 1904, the U.S. has patrolled the Caribbean like a cop on a beat, using its "big stick" to enforce the "primary laws of civilized society." It has aborted revolutions, overthrown unacceptable governments, and sent in troops to restore order in several Caribbean nations, including Haiti, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. Today, however, the Caribbean can no longer be considered an "American Lake." Travel ads entice U.S. tourists with the promise of swaying palms and unspoiled vistas of sandy beach. But the nationalistic winds sweeping through the Third World have...
...post-Stalin era. Why the special interest in a gold medal canoeist? A big clue could lie in the book Cesiunas was planning to write for publication in the West prior to the 1980 Moscow Olympics. The subject: an expose of how Soviet athletes use drugs in order to excel in international competitions...
...fact, the results represented a thumping loss of prestige and power for Ohira. Over the objections of advisers, he had insisted on calling an election 14 months before the constitution required it, in order to win a mandate to cope with the serious economic challenges that Japan faces in the next decade. Far too bullishly, he had predicted a sweeping victory for his party, and confidently set the goals of a "stable majority" of 271 seats. "This election will be the gateway to the 1980s," Ohira promised his audiences...
...infiltrating villages to establish bases and food-supply depots. Militarily, they are totally overshadowed by the Communists' New Peoples Army, which numbers 2,000 to 3,000. Nonetheless, one Democratic Socialis Party leader-a Jesuit priest who insists that he is still "in very good standing" with his order-claims that the Sandigan group operating near Davao in Mindanao has already made its first kills in skirmishes against tribal paramilitary forces...
...what will be the results if no change occurs? Liberals fear that despite the enormous regard in which multitudes hold this remarkable new Pope, his hard line will drive more Roman Catholics out of the church and discourage men and women from entering the priesthood and the religious orders. The competing theory, heard increasingly in the Vatican, is that churches that cater to contemporary notions in order to maintain church membership do not prosper. The decline of many liberalizing American Protestant churches seems to bear out that view. The biblical example of Gideon, who chose to fight with an army...