Word: enlisted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fetched up in London, intended for a seedy and temporarily missing publisher named Bartholomew Scott Blair, known familiarly as Barley. The first priority is to find him. The second is to grill him until he admits his involvement in a duplicitous plot. Failing that, the third imperative is to enlist Barley as a spy and send him off to discover more about his mysterious Soviet informant...
Bush's most sensible option is to continue to enlist Panama's neighbors in the campaign to oust Noriega. Now that Bush has pointedly consulted half a dozen Latin American leaders on his game plan, they will make a mockery of their own calls for "regional solutions to regional problems" if they run off the field and hide. "A lot of countries are coming on board with Milquetoast statements," says a U.S. official. "We need to get Mexico and some of these other fence-sitters to come out publicly and totally isolate Noriega...
...capitulates, there is little evidence that the defense forces plan to retire to the barracks. "For real democracy to take place in Panama," Moss warns, "it will be a long-term workout, a gradual weaning away of the military from direct power." To encourage that, the Bush Administration must enlist Latin American allies. Recourse to the big stick will only sour relations with the region...
...establish peaceful conditions around the country's borders. Simply enforcing totalitarianism on restive East bloc neighbors was no longer a satisfactory solution; their own vast economic and political troubles were becoming an insupportable drain on Soviet resources and attention. Perhaps most important, Gorbachev recognized that it was essential to enlist economic, technological and managerial assistance from the West. The price of that was a curtailment of cold war aggression and regional agitation...
Last week Nunn and an ideologically diverse group of Democratic legislators kicked off the most ambitious drive for national service in more than a generation. They envision a Citizens Corps that would enlist as many as 1 million young high school graduates to spend at least a year working for $100 a week in places like hospices and homeless shelters in their local communities. The volunteers would also have the option of entering the armed forces at wage rates significantly below those of regular soldiers. The national-service proposal -- originally developed by sociologist Charles Moskos and the Democratic Leadership Council...