Word: salvador
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which funnels money to PBS and its member stations, was delayed early this month after conservative Senators railed against the alleged leftward tilt of the shows. Republican John McCain of Arizona blasted Maria's Story, the profile of a peasant woman who joined the left-wing insurgency in El Salvador, which aired last summer. Minority leader Robert Dole criticized PBS election commentators Bill Moyers and former Washington Post editor William Grieder -- "two excellent journalists who also / happen to be two excellent liberal Democrats...
...immediate postwar years, we implemented a two-pronged strategy to blunt Moscow's main thrust in Europe, using military power to deter aggression and economic power through the Marshall Plan to counter the communist ideological challenge. We later beat back Soviet salients in Korea, the Philippines, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Angola, Afghanistan and elsewhere...
...lost everything. All we have are theclothes on our back," said Carlos Ulloa, a nativeof EI Salvador...
...falling and doomed to collapse one way or another -- and Poland was the force that would lead to the dam breaking. He demanded a constant ((CIA)) focus on Eastern Europe. It wasn't noticed, because other stories were more controversial and were perking at the moment -- Nicaragua and Salvador...
...poised to dispatch a peacekeeping force of 10,000 to Yugoslavia. An additional 1,000 blue helmets are on their way to El Salvador to monitor the end of that country's 12-year civil war. A U.N. mission is organizing a referendum for the people of the Western Sahara to determine whether they want to be independent or part of Morocco. And an advance team is preparing to take over the administration of an entire country, Cambodia, until it can elect a new government in 1993. Meanwhile, the U.N. continues to grapple with a host of crises that know...