Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perhaps the most terrifying chord in all music. Mahler (1860-1911) gave more than a ten-minute appearance however (unlike Brando). His wife Alma said in her letters that the Sixth is autobiographical, like most of his other symphonies. Mahler has the last word in romantic program music--music that suggests events and images. No other composer has chosen the same hero...
...nearby Cuba and Nicaragua. Nicaragua appeared to be serving as the transit point for these arms. In order to "help El Salvador interdict the supply of military equipment coming in from the outside," as U.S. Ambassador Robert White put it, Washington resumed the modest $5 million military aid program that had been suspended since the murders of three American nuns and a lay worker by right-wing death squads a month...
...civil war in El Salvador is a conflict with no victors, only victims; indeed, there are those who would argue neither side deserves to win. Despite its commitment to a sweeping land reform program, the junta headed by Duarte has been tarnished by its inability to control the security forces, which have condoned and perhaps participated in the torture and execution of suspected leftists by right-wing death squads. The F.M.L.N., meanwhile, has managed to alienate much of its potential support among workers and peasants by answering violence with violence, brutality with brutality. Leftist death squads may be fewer...
...Expanding resource flow and tightening administration of agrarian reform program to reduce its impact on traditional elite and to increase short term benefits to target population...
Political power in the country is firmly in the hands of the hardline faction of the military, paramilitary and civilian elites. Among them there is near unanimous rejection of any reformist or moderating changes in regime composition or program...