Word: present
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...immediate American military involvement in Central America, the visible fact remains that the Reagan Administration's policy toward Nicaragua is a war policy. It is not easy to look at this policy and conclude that the Unites States is in anything less than a prolonged pre-war period at present. Whether Congress gives the contras $100 million, $500 million, or nothing at all, the current realities indicate that the proxy war will continue and that the contras...
Reporters have a responsibility to investigate who politicians are, and editors have a responsibility to present that news in a way comensurate with its importance. What editors choose to run and how prominently they run it affects the news, and this power requires good judgment. As a rule, front page banner headlines should be reserved for hard news, not stories with hazy implications about candidates' personalities...
...white taxi driver refused to let a blind white girl and her colored nurse ride together in his cab; that white and colored children were forbidden to appear together in a Red Cross pageant; that Cabinet ministers refused to attend any receptions where blacks or coloreds might be present; that the Afrikaner poet Breyten Breytenbach was denied permission to bring his Vietnamese wife into the country to meet his parents; that a black workman could hold two wires for a white electrician but was not allowed to join them together...
...Night), some of whose work has been banned in South Africa, agrees: "If faced with the ultimate choice between sharing and going under, the Masada complex need not prevail. There is still a chance -- small and diminishing rapidly -- of entering into the kind of dialectic with the present which may open up the future." Frederik van Zyl Slabbert was leader of the official opposition, the Progressive Federal Party, until he resigned in disgust last year, so his criticisms are hardly new. But he is also a former professor of sociology and thus well tuned to the new mood of intellectual...
...former Foreign Minister, asked Reagan to remove the 100% duties that the President had slapped on a variety of Japanese color televisions, computers and power tools on April 17. Abe outlined a series of economic proposals -- aimed at reducing his country's irritating surplus -- that Nakasone will present during his visit. The measures involve sustained efforts to boost Japanese consumer demand and thus imports. Japan also plans to encourage the lending of perhaps as much as $30 billion to Third World debtor nations. The prospect of the changes, however, did nothing to strengthen the U.S. dollar: last week it fell...