Word: parts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dukakis' principles are still for the most part the opposite of Reagan...
...drawn toward neoisolationism, as expressed by George McGovern's exhortation "Come home, America," while Republican activists have tended toward a unilateralist policy, symbolized by Reagan's call for America to "stand tall." Dukakis takes a third approach: he calls himself a "multilateralist." In other words, he portrays himself as part of the once dominant bipartisan consensus that favored asserting American influence through alliances, treaty organizations, economic partnerships and the United Nations, and in accordance with international law. His world view reflects his background as a lawyer who has a reformer's faith in legal and governmental processes...
Dukakis' multilateral outlook is most evident regarding Latin America. He often cites the summer of 1954, when he was living with a family in Peru at the time the CIA overthrew the left-leaning elected government of Guatemala. It was part of a pattern, he says. "Every time we intervened, we did so in the name of democracy. And almost without exception, the legacy of our intervention has been tyranny." The reasons: "We put ourselves above the law. We tried to go it alone. We tried to impose our views, instead of helping to build a democratic tradition...
...retrospect, the most frightening part of the tragedy is its seeming inevitability. Rogers may have made the only decision he could, given what he knew and when he knew it. The U.S. rules of engagement are not unreasonable, | considering the situation in the Persian Gulf, and the Aegis system apparently worked as it was supposed to. The tragedy seems to have resulted from a collision of random events (an airliner taking off at the moment a naval battle was beginning, for example) with inflexible technology in a pattern that could conceivably happen again. The Navy immediately began searching for ways...
...slack and bland, the glimpse of Churchill in wartime likely to appeal only to those with nostalgia for buzz bombs. In the wings: mostly revivals, including Can-Can and Brigadoon. Bemoans Producer Cameron Mackintosh (The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables): "It's Mausoleum Alley here." In part, the West End is the ironic victim of its own past successes. Fourteen shows now running in London have been playing for a year or more, and ten of those have already been seen on Broadway. Cuts in government funding have made even the two big subsidized troupes, the National Theater...