Word: ued
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...charges in its publications. A few months later, Jessup and Robb set up the I.R.D. in Washington, D.C., to monitor political activity by various denominations. They enlisted a credibility-building board of advisers whose 28 members range from socialist to right-wing on domestic issues but are pro-U.S. on foreign policy...
Unlike earlier gatherings, which often resounded with anti-U.S. declarations that made a mockery of the movement's name, the New Delhi summit marked a return to moderation. The main reason was the influence of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who, as the summit's host, automatically assumed the leadership from Cuban President Fidel Castro. At the last summit meeting, which took place in Havana, Castro tried, but failed, to have the conference formally recognize the Soviet Union as the natural ally of the nonaligned. In contrast, last week's meeting returned to the principle established...
...other speakers urged Western style industrial development for the reservations. "It's more important to preserve cultural identity than any particular style of life," said. Donald Feist, a U S Dept. of Housing and Urban Development official. A tribe that resists change risks becoming a museum piece," he added...
...many years, first as a government health official, and now as an exile. Silva spoke at Harvard Thursday night along with two doctors from the committee for Human and Health Rights on the predicament of the Salvadorans. The doctors were quick to blame the Salvadoran government and implicate U S administrators supporting that regime...
...government official, Silva experienced first-hand the frustration of attempting to improve Salvadoran health conditions in the face of government corruption and right-wing repression. At one point, he said in the speech he attempted to expose a high official as responsible for the disappearance of $150,000 of U S. medical supplies. He wrote to the health minister, but the official resigned in protest of the tendency for the military to cover up health problems. Then Silva informed the attorney general, but shortly thereafter the man was assassinated after being labelled a communist by rightist ARENA party leader Roberto...