Word: skirmisher
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...organization is only the opening skirmish. Now comes the true campaign: devising a foreign policy to meet the challenges of what Haig sees as the supremely risky world of the 1980s. Since the Administration has been preoccupied with the domestic economy, its foreign policy is more a set of attitudes than a series of thought-out positions. But if the specifics are still unclear, the overall approach is not. Haig began spelling it out in speeches while he was still NATO commander; his ideas dovetail so neatly with Reagan's that the President hardly considered anyone else...
...brutal civil war in El Salvador was between battles last week. In the only major skirmish, Salvadoran soldiers clashed with armed teen-agers sympathetic to the rebel cause in the village of San Lorenzo. The toll, according to an army major: 40 guerrillas and one soldier dead. From their hideouts in remote areas near the border with Honduras, leftist guerrillas of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front emerged briefly to blockade roads and blow up a number of bridges and power lines. Meanwhile, death squads of both right and left still roamed the land, murdering anyone they suspected...
...Nate Thayer, a spokesman for the Boston Clamshell Alliance, an anti-nuclear group, charged yesterday that "the police were excessively violent with absolutely no provocation," He added that a woman had been hospitalized with a concussion suffered during a skirmish with the police...
...Salvador. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger told the State Department last week that he could not go along with the plan. Salvadoran government officials fear that if they accept the teams they will be admitting they need outside help to defeat the guerrillas. Still, leftist guerrillas are beginning to skirmish again with Salvadoran soldiers, scarcely a month after the defeat of the insurgents' self-proclaimed "final offensive." Authorities in San Salvador are predicting a long struggle-and it is one in which U.S. soldiers could possibly find themselves under combat fire...
Reagan won a skirmish with Congress last week when his most controversial appointee, Raymond Donovan, was approved as Secretary of Labor by the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee; he faces the full Senate vote this week. Some half a dozen informants had told the FBI that Donovan's New Jersey construction firm had ties to organized crime. The chief accuser was Ralph Picardo, a self-admitted "unsavory character" who was convicted of murder in 1975. Two years later, his conviction was overturned on appeal. Meanwhile, Picardo began to talk and the FBI found him to be a credible...