Word: controller
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Before the government legalized the A.N.C. in February, the group had argued that its underground network of agents could quickly organize control in the black townships. As it turned out, the A.N.C. enjoys less allegiance than it claimed. Moreover, Mandela has been sending out a mixed message, calling at once for peace and for a continuation of the "armed struggle" against apartheid...
Western Sovietologists warn against assuming that discontent within the military means that a coup is in the offing. There is no example of Bonapartism in Russian history, and the Soviet army has always been firmly under civilian control. "A lot of military people are distressed," says retired U.S. General William Odom, former chief of the National Security Agency who is now at the Hudson Institute, "but it would be a mistake to see the friction as evidence of coup thinking." In any case, he says, the brass is snapping back at its civilian critics with Gorbachev's permission, in order...
...election, in a rage at George Bush's conduct, I was particularly susceptible to liberalish junk mail. What I hungered for was a group called something like Patriotic Americans for Flag Burning and Prison Furloughs. What I settled for was the likes of the American Civil Liberties Union, Handgun Control Inc. and my local public-television station. In the past few months, they have all been hitting me up for renewal. What's more, they have generously shared my name and address with other groups willing to gamble that a tender concern for the First Amendment or a fondness...
What I may do, after renewing Handgun Control, is send five bucks to the National Rifle Association and a few groups like that. Then I'll lean back and let them spend many times that amount trying to squeeze more out of me. On the receiving end of the direct-mail business, torturing the opposition may be the way to get the most bang for your buck...
...question has hovered menacingly since Violeta Chamorro's upset win last February in Nicaragua's presidential elections: Would the defeated Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.) relinquish control of the army and police force that kept it in power for ten years...