Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...superpower and the minipower had different motives for cranking up the mutual war of nerves. In the wake of President Reagan's election victory, Washington seemed intent on setting what one official called "the limits of U.S. tolerance" toward Marxist-led Nicaragua. After their somewhat less than democratic election triumph on Nov. 4, the Sandinistas seemed determined to keep building up their arsenal as rapidly as possible. Neither stance boded particularly well for the process of negotiated peace in the region, which both sides claim to support...
...percolate within the Administration, the U.S. tends to pick and choose among different reasons for confronting the Sandinistas. Among the hardliners, the latest outcry may have the ultimate aim of restoring shattered congressional support for the rebellious contras. That prospect, however, has grown even less likely in the wake of the controversy over a CIA-drafted counterinsurgency manual (see box). Among moderates, the hope is to force the Sandinistas to accept a version of the so-called Contadora peace process that will adequately guarantee security and democracy in the region...
Cambridge already has a drug policy which the school committee passed last year making it universal throughout Cambridge, Downing said. But he added. "We are just starting to wake up the community and get parents involved...
Thus, in the wake of rampant killings, mounting fanaticism, and reports of the alarming military build-up of the Golden Temple, Gandhi and the center can hardly be accused of intentional brutality in calling in the Indian army. Sikhs and Sikh supporters loudly condemned the army move, outraged by the government's desecration of their holiest shrine. But does this not skirt the sacriligious behavior of the Sikhs in using a place of worship revered by millions as an arsenal and sanctuary for murderers. Furthermore, the charge made by some of Western observers, the New Yorker for example, that Gandhi...
...vocabulary rooted in the operatic purity of silent-film making; Schygulla uses it to create, with each film, a new chapter in the emotional biography of the modern European woman. A Love in Germany reveals Schygulla as a superb, fearless actress and an international star ready to take Hollywood. Wake the town, tell the people. Frighten the horses, even. -By Richard Corliss