Word: war
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During World War II. Rogers was a lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps and earned a Silver Star for driving several officers, including General George S. Patton's chief of staff, through enemy lines in French Morocco...
...compare polling policy in Sandinista-led Nicaragua to the genocide enacted by ARENA-led EI Salvador shows unspeakable disrespect for human rights by making all offenses equal. Bates' piece also cheapens the lives of all Central Americans by submitting to the terms of a cold-war discourse (and along the way forgetting that while Soviet aid to Nicaragua began during Carter's presidency, so did U.S. aid to contras...
Bates suggests that COCA's intent in sending the draft cards was to "generate hysteria" over a "highly improbable U.S. war in the region." For the record, The New York Times reported yesterday that U.S. pilots were flying night-time bombing missions over San Salvador. In addition, the 55 United States military advisors in EI Salvador are presently engaging in combat, and U.S. warships have moved to EI Salvador's coast...
...Israel there is a generation that is fed up with war, especially the generation that went through many wars," Aruri said. He added that for the first time in Israel's history, "we have all the Arab countries and most of the influential Palestinian organizations and the highest majority of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Territories for a two-state solution...
...leftist SWAPO Party, which led a guerrilla war against South Africa for 23 years, is expected to win a majority of the 72 seats in the National Assembly, but the key question will be the size of its victory. If SWAPO gains two-thirds of the seats, it will be able to frame the country's new constitution on its own terms. But observers believed the voting procedures would limit SWAPO's prospects. Example: since about half the voters were illiterate, many were likely to be confused by the fact that nine of the ten contending parties had ballot symbols...