Word: co-opt
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...Administration repeatedly, and no doubt sincerely, says it does not want the Khmer Rouge to "dominate" a new Kampuchea. But it endorses the idea of a four-part coalition government that would embrace and thereby, it is hoped, co-opt the Khmer Rouge. Speaking of the prospective coalition, Secretary of State James Baker told the Senate last month, "You're going to have the Khmer Rouge there . . . That's a fact of life." That is true only if the U.S. and the Khmer Rouge's principal patrons, China and Thailand, make...
...said you can't fight city hall? For more than a decade, the drug barons of the Medellin cartel have been using murder and corruption in an attempt to cow or co-opt elected officials of this pleasant, bustling Colombian city of 2 million people and turn it into the world capital of the cocaine business. In the process, Medellin, known locally as the "city of eternal spring" for its mild mountain climate, has become the city of eternal violence. More than 3,000 people were murdered there last year, a homicide rate about five times . as high...
...President it satirizes. This Reagan (Jim Morris) smiles incessantly; he may be befuddled but he is never cruel. That was a strategic choice by Trudeau and the show's composer, Elizabeth Swados, a theater innovator (Runaways) with whom he also created the Broadway Doonesbury. Says Trudeau: "We wanted to co-opt Reagan's ingratiating style while dispelling the illusion that he doesn't mean the meanness of his policies...
...behalf of the poor and against social injustice, more often and more vigorously than any of his predecessors. He has relentlessly continued to stress both the evils of Marxism and the need for priests to avoid direct involvement in politics. In effect, his aim has been to co-opt the acceptable themes of liberation theology, while trimming away its objectionable elements. As one high official of the Roman Curia puts it, John Paul's strategy is "to show that he is the premier liberation theologian...
...democracy. Mexico has been ruled by the same party, the PRI, since 1920. The PRI (Party of the Institutional Revolution) began as the centrist party which emerged from the tumult of the Mexican revolution and has steadily consolidated power ever since. Its leadership has never hesitated to cajole or co-opt the wayward peasant leader or union boss. If all else fails, the PRI retains a powerful ability to repress its more intransigent opponents...