Word: slips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foiled coup underscored the unwillingness of at least some Filipinos to give their President the time she needs to carry out her reforms. Once the gunfire died down and the smoke cleared, a troublesome question remained: Is the Philippines truly ready for democracy, or is it destined to slip once again into chaos...
From the beginning, friction arose between King's ISA and Longhofer's operations units. In 1981 they cooperated with the CIA on a mission to slip Christian Leader Bashir Gemayel back into Lebanon after a secret visit to the U.S., foiling a suspected Syrian plot to kill him. Gemayel made it (though he was assassinated one year later). But while the Seaspray-ISA team was in Egypt coordinating the mission with the Israelis, a special operations officer spotted an ISA man taping their discussions, on King's orders. "Young man," the officer reportedly thundered, "this is a CIA mission. Either...
Wattleton, along with syndicated Columnist Ellen Goodman and legions of other modern women, also objects to Wattenberg's tendency, as Goodman puts it, "to slip easily back into a traditional vernacular -- woman as exclusive child raiser." Schearer links this objection to the fundamental criticism of Wattenberg's espousal of Government birth incentives for the sake of international dominance. "There is something distasteful," he says, "about the concept that we should subvert personal aspirations in the democracy of America to the cause of maintaining our world-power status in the 21st century...
...Republican Senator David Durenberger, former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was sharply criticized in March for telling a Jewish group in Miami that the CIA had recruited an Israeli army officer to provide classified information on Israeli forces during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. He made this slip during the uproar over the life-imprisonment sentence imposed on an American, Jonathan Jay Pollard, who was caught spying for Israel. In a 1983 incident, members of the Intelligence Committees commented publicly on U.S. and CIA support for the Nicaraguan contras. Administration officials had talked about the subject so often that...
Partly it is a matter of emotional scale. This is not a movie of halfway measures. The wicked are irredeemably wicked, the good unalterably good. No one is permitted to slip into anything a little more comfortable and up to date, like ambiguity or absurdism. And no one is permitted to loiter palely among his half-formed thoughts...