Word: salvadorâ
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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While all these words were being lofted, the existing "little wars" of the world?the ones in Afghanistan, Iran-Iraq, Northern Ireland, Cambodia, Namibia, Chad, Ethiopia-Somalia, Guatemala and El Salvador???were joined by two more. The coincidence is noteworthy. After the invasion of Lebanon, an editorial in the New York Times declared: "There is no point wailing about what might have been." Possibly. But that palliative countermands all the earlier sage advice proffered by that selfsame publication, and by this one and by every other voice that lobs words against tanks. The P.L.O. could have forsworn terrorism with words...
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