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...Officer Training Corps, and of the military more generally, on Harvard's campus. But let us not get so caught up in this relatively parochial matter that we ignore the larger questions the very existence of ROTC in its current state should evoke. For a remilitarized country and a war-torn world exist in spite of a demilitarized Harvard...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Forcing a Military Option | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...factions disagreed over everything, from the role that ex-King Zahir Shah should play in the rebuilding of war-torn Afghanistan to the composition of the shura itself, some spectators had the eerie feeling of watching a car accident taking place in slow motion. "This is the last chance for Kabul," says a Western diplomat based in Islamabad. "If it collapses, Afghanistan will collapse into fratricidal bloodshed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan Without a Look Back | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

...influx of Central American refugees fleeing war-torn El Salvador and Nicaragua and economically-crippled Mexico has generated just as much mistrust and fear from Catholics as from any other group. Although Church social teaching says that when a country cannot provide the basic necessities of life, its citizens should be free to emigrate to those countries that can, Catholics have been as reluctant as other religious groups to denounce restrictions on emigration from Central America...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: Failing to Heed the Church's Call | 2/18/1989 | See Source »

Although not entirely successful, the Reagan philosophy paid off in some areas, such as Afghanistan, where American arms supplied to rebels persuaded the Soviets to end an occupation of the war-torn nation, says Adam B. Ulam, Gurney professor of history and political science...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: The Eye of History | 2/1/1989 | See Source »

...ceremony will be Cambridge's latest collaboration with the Interfaith Office on Accompaniment Nation Repopulation to aid in the resettlement of cities in war-torn El Salvador. These areas have been deserted since the escalation of the Salvadoran civil war...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Sends Barrett to El Salvador | 10/4/1988 | See Source »

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