Word: whether
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Helms, that noted paleo-conservative, has taken up the cudgels against the most distinguished and useful vehicle of patronage in American cultural life, the National Endowment for the Arts. Neoconservatives want to keep the NEA because they would like to run it. Paleos like Helms don't greatly care whether it exists or not; if attacking it can serve a larger agenda, fine...
...Prime Minister of the Vietnamese-sponsored regime, is ready to share power with Sihanouk but not with the Khmer Rouge -- and for good reason: whether or not they are allowed into a coalition, they will certainly try to keep their camps and arms caches. Some level of fighting would go on. It is a question of whether the Khmer Rouge are granted government portfolios and political legitimacy along with their military strength. Attending the Paris conference last week, Secretary of State James Baker said, "The United States strongly believes that the Khmer Rouge should play no role in Cambodia...
Maybe. But six weeks after the Webster decision, pro-choice forces may be squandering their newfound energy in a debilitating squabble. One divisive issue is whether to stage another abortion-rights megamarch on Washington, like the one that drew at least 400,000 to the nation's capital last April, or to direct the energy and money required to mount such a colossal demonstration toward the more productive but less mediagenic grass-roots political organizing...
Ortega insists that the accords called for the disarming of the Contras, whether or not the rebels agree to it. But Arias and President Jose Azcona of Honduras say the disbanding will have to be voluntary, and Azcona refuses to use military force against the rebels and will not tolerate Nicaraguan military action along the Honduran border...
More time is needed to work out the proposal's logistics and determine further whether Nicaragua's promises of democratic reform are legitimate. It will certainly take more than four months to be successful...