Word: powerlessness
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...backed contra rebels set up bases in Honduras for their efforts to bring down the Nicaraguan government, the country has found itself in a curious kind of limbo: not at war, but hardly at peace, caught in the line of a fire that it is unwilling and largely powerless to join. Now, with Washington about to send $100 million in aid to the contras, the reluctant hosts find themselves closer to the war, and more divided, than ever...
...work under tight legal constraints. The 30 or so agents, most of them Mexican Americans, are not allowed to make arrests, seize illicit drugs or even question suspects. Though formally attached to the U.S. embassy, they mainly work undercover with paid informers. Much of the time, they are relatively powerless. Says one enforcement officer: "Intelligence is the only game we play down here. For example, some Chicago families have direct links with the Durango Mafia. We listen to the street talk and occasionally we get a report that so many k's (kilograms) are coming up." At that point...
Pulitzer-prize winning author J. Anthony Lukas '55 told the audience of about 200 that the press corp's main fault is not its failure to be aggressive in the face of lawsuits, but its endemic refusal to cover the powerless...
...months, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries had seemed ready for the obituary columns. The oil ministers of the 13-nation group, which once cowed energy-importing countries and commanded banner headlines with every pronouncement, had become a group of divided and argumentative men, powerless to halt a long slide in petroleum prices. Last week, though, OPEC suddenly sprang from its deathbed and caught the world's attention once again. After nine days of tense meetings in Geneva, the cartel adopted a plan to slash its daily oil production by some 17% in the hope of driving prices back...
...women began arriving and tying their kerchiefs, the statement that tumbled first off their lips was, "We feel powerless...