Word: prods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subsequent calls for condemnation of South Africa at the U.N., the U.S. had abstained from chastising Pretoria and at least once joined a vote of disapproval. But last week's veto indicated that the Reagan Administration has other ideas. It apparently sees no gain in trying to prod Pretoria's apartheid regime, especially by public condemnation, into a change. It also prefers to view developments in southern Africa as part of an overall East-West confrontation rather than a black-white struggle. The Administration's policy for southern Africa was outlined only days before the U.N. veto...
Mostly young and educated, the Mujahedin charge that the ruling clergy's primitivism and "petit bourgeois understanding of Islam" merely pave the way for a return of Western exploitation in Iran. The guerrillas want to prod the revolution into breaking down class distinctions through a radical redistribution of wealth, collective farming, nationalization of the entire economy and government by decentralized councils...
...matter how fast the U.S. deports the Haitians, their bleak prospects will doubtless continue to prod them toward a country that does not want them. "I will try again and keep trying," asserted one man still in Haiti and eager to leave...
...meets up with her friends down the road, and they cruise all night. Three carloads of drugged, glassy-eyed, wild-haired teenage girls lurch along dirt roads, frenetic music stimulating them like an electric cattle prod into disjointed spasms. Snaporaz eventually flees, panicked, into the pleasure palace of Dr. Xavier Zuberkock, an aging Bacchanalian who calls to mind the incoherent but dynamic Mynheer Peeperkorn of Mann's Magic Mountain...