Word: western
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...source of the siren call is David F. Machell, associate professor at Western Connecticut State University. For years this justice and law administration scholar has boned up on his stress prognostication skills, first working with low-intensity occupations such as police work, physicians, priests before moving up to the big-league, another-faculty-meeting-another-swig-of-Maalox world of academia...
...seems that the government has not allowed its abuses in the turbulent territories to spill over into the rest of Israel. Israeli law applies as it always has within the state itself, and it is possible to see Israel--as it is frequently described--as a "western-style democracy...
...plans to withdraw Poland from the Warsaw Pact, and an alliance declaration in July forbade the use of pact troops in the affairs of member nations. Still, Poland plans to push for further bilateral assurances. The Soviets are pressing NATO for a mutual phasing out of the Eastern and Western military alliances, but Moscow is certain to reject individual initiatives by pact members. As Soviet spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov said last week, "We may witness a change of government in Warsaw or Budapest, but international obligations do not necessarily go away with a change of government...
...fighter whose National Resistance Army triumphantly entered an exhausted Kampala after five years of guerrilla war against a series of brief governments that succeeded Amin's. Once a firebrand student of economics and politics at Tanzania's University of Dar es Salaam, Museveni was regarded with some trepidation in Western capitals when he emerged from the bush. Now the assessment is almost unanimously positive. Museveni, says a U.S. diplomat in Kampala, has been "a very effective leader. He has subdued tribal rebels in the north, instituted a sort of grass-roots democracy, and even managed to hold a successful national...
When Askins speaks, the setting can resemble an old-style western movie, several scenes before the shoot-out. She has blue eyes and long brown hair, and her manner is that of the pretty, courageous schoolmarm standing up for truth and decency in words the fearful townspeople would just as soon not hear. Yes, she says, wolves get their living by killing. No, they are not sweet and docile. Yes, stockmen are having a hard time economically. "But if we can't preserve wildness in Yellowstone, where can we preserve...