Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...largely outlived their usefulness. The menace of the Soviet SS-20s failed to scare West European nations out of their alliance with the U.S.; on the contrary, they prompted NATO allies to face down hysterical opposition from domestic peace movements and allow U.S. missiles to be placed on their soil as a counterweight to the Soviet launchers. By carrying through the deployment, the U.S. made its point: it would defend its allies. Now it can sacrifice most of the missiles without loss, particularly since the original purpose of installing them was to persuade the Soviets to scrap most...
Libya plans to irrigate nearly half a million acres of land with the water. Although irrigation may initially produce bumper crops, some scientists say persistent intensive irrigation will release salts in the soil, leading to such a high level of salinity that agriculture in the area may be threatened. "Irrigation schemes around the world don't have a good track record," says Tony Debney of the Wallingford institute. In California, he notes, large tracts of land have become barren because of long-term irrigation...
...issue has been further complicated because the presence of the contras on Honduran soil violates the principle of self-determination enshrined in the country's constitution. Honduran officials are therefore wont to deny the guerrillas' presence in one breath and, in the next, to explain that the contras are needed to defend the 508-mile border with Nicaragua. Having seen the Sandinistas invade their country in pursuit of contras only last March, some Hondurans believe the guerrillas are not preventing war so much as provoking it. "Of course U.S. economic aid helps us," says Efrain Diaz, head of the opposition...
Indeed, the majority of Hondurans respond to their liminal position with a paradoxical longing: that the contras be replaced by U.S. troops, and the indecisive border skirmishing by a full-scale U.S. invasion of Nicaragua. As it is, Washington currently has only 750 troops on Honduran soil in a constantly fluctuating rotation that sometimes involves as many as 5,800. "The only way to get rid of the Sandinistas," says Conchita Canales, a Nicaraguan exile now working as a cook in the Honduran border town of San Marcos, "is with the kind of action the U.S. pulled off in that...
Aquino's position was bolstered in Manila, where a 48-member commission, charged by Aquino with drafting a new constitution, defeated a move by leftist delegates to ban all foreign military bases from Philippine soil. Instead, the commission agreed to leave the issue out of the constitution, making lease extensions for the U.S. military bases subject to legislative approval...