Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Central America last week. Throughout the isthmus, a fight for power is evolving between extremists on the far right and on the far left that is leaving leaders who are even vaguely in the middle in an increasingly exposed and perilous position. For the Reagan Administration, the whirlwind of revolt and repression poses special and hazardous problems as it tries to find ways of helping the moderates and of bringing stability to a region that is in America's backyard...
...Muslim Brotherhood in Hama stages a fierce revolt...
What has happened in Hama has happened, and it is all over." With that terse declaration, Syria's President Hafez Assad last week acknowledged for the first time that his country's fifth largest city had been racked by fierce revolt in recent weeks. Assad insisted that life in Hama was back to normal, but the three-week rebellion is believed to have damaged much of the city's old quarter and killed more than 1,000 people. A Western diplomat who was able to get to the edges of Hama described destruction on the outskirts...
...these tendencies were tragically accelerated by the election of Richard Nixon. Nixon was probably the only leader who could disengage from Viet Nam without a conservative revolt. Yet his history of partisanship had made him anathema to most of the responsible Democrats. Radical opposition to the war thus fed on and merged with hatred of Richard Nixon on the part of many who had no sympathy for radicalism in general. The virulence of dissent was not moderated by those who, presumably, stood for values of civilized discourse and civic responsibility. Their yearning to expiate guilt shattered forever the existing foreign...
...governor of California. Ronald Reagan tried to dump statewide programs onto localities, which responded by raising taxes dramatically. The result, several years later, was a massive property tax revolt that swept dozens of incumbents from office. Reagan, however, escaped blame; by then, he had left office and was off and running for the White House. This time, we hope he is not so lucky. Congress should reject his New Federalism and expose it for what it really is: the President's latest ploy to escape responsibility for the virtual war he has declared on America's needy...