Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite their recent progress, the rebels do not control any of the country's 14 provincial capitals and retain little sway around San Salvador or the western half of the nation. Like most tropical wars, the conflict is cyclical. During the fall harvest, guerrillas make gains while the army pulls back to guard the cotton and coffee crops. By the end of January, the rebels retreat as the military swings to the offensive. Says a Western diplomat in San Salvador: "Washington's summer euphoria fades each November and returns around Christmas...
Katlin explained that this is because "Bulimia serves as an outlet for the underlying cause of the condition--depression, adding, "a student can thus appear perfectly normal but retain a great underlying feeling of depression which might otherwise be revealed in some other...
Burt had been refining the State Department option. The result was similar in many respects to the walk in the woods, with the important exception that the U.S. would retain the right to deploy the Pershing II. Weinberger did not want to budge. "We're doing fine," he said at an NSC meeting in mid-August. "Our position is already a good one. If it's not broken...
...been surprised it hasn't happened," said Peter Scully '58, graduate secretary-treasurer of the Mt. Auburn St. club. "We have constantly addressed this situation, but the undergraduates have always said no, they want to retain it in its present form...
...Prime Minister and a Shi'ite Muslim speaker of Parliament. The Maronites, however, are now outnumbered by the Muslims and particularly the Shi'ites. They, and some of the other groups, want a larger share of political power, although most seem prepared to allow the Maronites to retain the presidency. Despite their accumulated grievances, the conferees quickly reached agreement on a statement defining Lebanon's national identity. It described Lebanon as "a free, sovereign and independent state," as the Christians wanted it to do, but it also satisfied Muslim demands by defining Lebanon as "Arab in affiliation...