Word: pledgees
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Complicating matters is the existence of armed, para-governmental forces which pledge allegiance directly to Khomeini but don't always follows his lead. Khomeini has several times urged these groups to limit their anarchic activities--only to be virtually ignored.
BOTH MAJOR POLITICAL parties try to capture the essence of American government in their names, but a group of student politicians at the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, is going a bit further, Campaigning last week in the student government elections, the Boring Party offers voters a a blank piece of...
Reaganites retort, correctly, that while Viet Nam is halfway around the world and of debatable strategic importance to Washington, Central America is virtually next door, an area where U.S. interests are obvious. Moreover, the amounts Washington is spending to help the government of El Salvador defeat leftist guerrillas and to...
The new editor stressed last week that his changes at U.S. News will be "evolutionary," thus echoing Zuckerman's pledge not to alter the magazine precipitately and risk alienating longtime readers. With a circulation of 2 million, U.S. News runs a distant third behind TIME (U.S. circ. 4.4 million) and...
The Truman Doctrine set out the basic foreign policy axiom of the postwar era: containment. With J.F.K.'s pledge to "bear any burden . . . to assure . . . the success of liberty," the idea of containment reached its most expansive and consensually accepted stage. With Viet Nam, the consensus and the expansiveness collapsed...