Word: prior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...implies an allocation of bureaucratic and financial resources exceeding those made to any other hemispheric crisis since 1965. No such allocation could have taken place without a major high level decision in the administration. This decision was made in part to prevent the crisis in El Salvador from climaxing prior to the elections. However, the choices made have strategic implications reaching beyond domestic political considerations...
...Prior to July 1979, the FSLN maintained support networks in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. FSLN commanders and troops are familiar with the terrain and the population. Nicaraguans have extensive family ties in these countries...
...seen my name in the papers, so I thought I'd tell them my position and simplify their decision-making process," Feldstein said, adding that he had not been formally approached by transition officials about a job prior to writing the letter...
...Just prior to winter break Weld residents filed a complaint with the Cambridge Board of Health about the unsatisfactory heating. "Before vacation we were promised that things would be fixed. It's after vacation and things are worse," Jared Hoffman'84 said last night...
...along, the President-elect had made plain that he wanted to fill his Government with individuals whose portfolios were already stamped with success. Amateurs and the unproven ambitious need not apply, though the proof of prior competence need not be in Government service. That meant, as Reagan knew, a step down for some-and too big a step for a few he wanted. But with the naming of five more Cabinet officers and two principal White House aides last week, Reagan's top offices were filled except for a handful of posts, including Secretary of Education and Special Trade...