Word: preventable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...popular conception is that we lost the war in Vietnam. However, as Noam Chomsky points out, maybe we didn't. It all depends on the objectives, and how we define won and lost. Of course, if the objective in Vietnam was to prevent the country from going red, we lost the war. But was this the true goal? Or was it rather, in Henry Kissinger's phrase, to "bomb them back to the Stone...
When President Reagan took office in 1981, his main foreign policy concern was to prevent El Salvador from going Red. While he took care to maintain a charade of democracy in that country, our policy seems designed to create chaos. First the CIA began to support the right-wing death squad violence that, between 1981 and 1985, left 60,000 suspected insurgents and union members dead. When the Reagan administration came under fire for its support of the death squads, it sponsored the elections which brought Jose Napolean Duarte to power in 1983. Duarte was supposed to have found...
...their own. They admitted as much when they decided to negotiate with the Sandinistas as soon as the Congress cut off aid earlier this year. The negotiations have been warmly welcomed by most everybody in Central America except for the Reagan administration, which has spent years trying to prevent such a disaster. Reagan doesn't want the war to stop until Nicaragua is crippled or submits...
...provoking riots during the 1987 Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia last week broke diplomatic ties with Iran. The move followed collapse of negotiations aimed at reducing the number of Iranians who will undertake this year's pilgrimage from 150,000 to 45,000 in order to help prevent new rioting...
...safety problems with the CarpenterCenter railing, Associate Dean for PhysicalResources Philip J. Parsons called for increasedawareness "of the human side of safety" inaddition to standard procedures. Parsons, whoplanned to consult with all house superintendentsat a regularly-scheduled meeting after theaccident, said he would tell them to stressincreased alertness to prevent future oversights...