Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have more strength in the varsity boat and more depth in the squad as a whole than last year," Kennelly added...
They claim to control one-fifth of El Salvador's national territory. Their fighting strength continues to grow, from 8,000 combatants in 1982 to 10,000 today. In the past year they have killed some 1,800 members of the Salvadoran army and security forces, knocked out key bridges and caused more than $100 million worth of economic damage. On the basis of their destructive activity alone, the five guerrilla organizations that make up El Salvador's Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) have shown that they are a potent national force...
Behind a showing of unity and strength, however, the Marxist-led F.M.L.N. has been troubled by periods of factionalism and by a jockeying for leadership that has occasionally resulted in murder. The guerrilla groups are still recovering from their latest crisis, which briefly laid bare their organization's internal workings and the personalities of its chieftains...
...translated "Let's Get it On" into "Sexual Healing," with the eighties touch apparent in the lyric, "Whenever blue teardrops are falling and my emotional stability is leaving me/There is someting I can do. I can get on the telephone and call you up baby." He added the strength of his new religion in the song "My Love is Waiting," and a sense of Third World struggles in "Third World Girl...
...stake in El Salvador is not just moral: it is also strategic. Vietnam may have been on the other side of the world: Central America is in our backyard. A communist El Salvador would threaten vital American increase the pressure on democratic Honduras and Costa Rica. The growing strength of revolutionary ideology on the isthmus would make the Panama Canal even more vulnerable to attack by terrorists or governments. And a Marxist-dominated Central America would have much adverse effect on Mexico, which faces increasing demographic and political pressures in the years to come...