Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...century and a half of American invasions and interventions--including one in which an American journalist, William Walker, declared himself president--fostered resentments that culminated in the overthrow of the U.S.-installed Somoza dictatorship. The insurgents in both Cuba and Nicaragua were largely able to mobilize cross-class support on promises not of Communism but of independence...
...United States is facing a similar crisis in El Salvador. Last year American aid to El Salvador doubled that nation's budget. And extraordinarily generous support for the Salvadoran military, besides encouraging corruption and removing any high-level army incentive to end the war, sends a message to all Salvadorans--left, center and right--that El Salvador is not in charge of its own policies...
WASHINGTON--A Democratic senator said yesterday he had seen Defense Secretary-designate John Tower "under the influence of alcohol" in the Senate, while another Democrat became the second to support the embattled Tower's confirmation...
...hours later, Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) pledged to support Tower...
Mitchell said that despite the decision Monday of Southern Democrat Howell Heflin of Alabama to support Tower, the nomination will go down in defeat...