Word: states
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ourselves the use of a more surgical tool? One defense of the assassination ban is cynical. It is part of an unspoken agreement that brings a bit of order to the international chaos by ruling out one especially messy technique of war. Explicitly limiting the ban to heads of state would be too openly cynical, but the deal in essence is: You don't kill our leader, we won't kill yours. National leaders, if not their citizens, sleep better that...
However, the real roots of the assassination ban are American and idealistic, not worldly and cynical. Assassination, said Secretary of State George Shultz, defending the ban after the Libya bombing, "doesn't fit our way of thinking on how to do things." Legal adviser Sofaer says, "Americans have a distaste for official killing, and especially for the intentional killing of specific individuals...
...after he knew the coup attempt had begun, and then, under pressure from loyalist commanders to come to Noriega's aid, Olechea and his troops moved out from their base at Fort Cimarron at about 10 a.m. Not until an hour later did the rebels manage to seize a state radio station and begin broadcasting their capture of Noriega...
Communications back in Washington were not much better, in part because the Bush Administration did not follow a crisis-management practice from the Reagan era: immediately convene the senior deputies of the Defense and State Departments, the CIA and the National Security Council to compare information. Moreover, Bush, a former CIA director who loves to pore over undigested intelligence cables, insisted on receiving three streams of often conflicting reports from the CIA, Defense and State...
...zoomed straight into Israel. It landed on a civilian airstrip at Megiddo, 57 miles north of Jerusalem, where its pilot, Major Mohammed Bassem Adel, 34, asked for political asylum. At a press conference last week, he said he had defected because "I would like to live in a democratic state...