Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington has been unblinkingly generous toward the genome project, especially since last April, when an array of scientists testified on the subject at a congressional committee hearing. There, Nobel laureate Watson of DNA fame, since picked by the NIH to head the effort, mesmerized listeners with his plea for support: "I see an extraordinary potential for human betterment ahead of us. We can have at our disposal the ultimate tool for understanding ourselves at the molecular level . . . The time...
...east of Santa Ana, in Usulutan province, the E.R.P. has consolidated its hold on another mountainous corridor, populated by nearly 200,000 peasants. Three years ago, the insurgents there were under frequent military attack. Civilian support was minimal. Today government troops dare only sporadic attacks, and they are frequently beaten back by peasant militias fighting alongside regular combatants. "We have established political control over the area," says "Raul," the rebel commander, "and now we are moving toward military control as well." He and other guerrilla leaders have lately obtained AK-47 assault rifles. They say the guns were bought from...
...Peasant support is crucial to the kind of rural-based war the F.M.L.N. is fighting. The impoverished farmers of Usulutan, for example, supply the rebels with food, information and labor. Says a civilian supporter in Santa Ana: "The moment a soldier asks you the whereabouts of the guerrillas, and you lie and say you don't know, from that moment you are collaborating with the guerrillas. And there are thousands of us like that...
...past, some economists have argued that new money must be provided to make any meaningful dent in the debt load. Secretary Brady has not proposed earmarking any new U.S. funds to help solve the debt crisis. But Japanese Finance Minister Tatsuo Murayama last week pledged financial support for the Administration plan, though no numbers have yet been released...
...explicitly call it opposition. I give full support to the general direction of perestroika, to the country's foreign policy and so on. But I have my own views on matters of political tactics that differ slightly from , the position of the official leadership. In this respect, there is a certain tension in our relationship, but I insist on certain limits...