Word: war-torn
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...postcard pretty: a turquoise ocean washes against a black sand beach rimmed by coconut trees. The perfect spot for a resort complex, complete with a 130-room hotel, bungalows, convention center and gambling casino. That planned capitalist paradise is on the Pacific coast of Marxist- led Nicaragua. The war-torn nation wants to build the resort to attract tourists from the U.S. and Canada and raise badly needed cash...
Taking a larger role in such crises will be a novel experience for both Conable and the World Bank. The bank was founded in 1945 as the chief conduit for aid to war-torn Europe and Japan. It was viewed as a source of 15- to 20- year development loans, while the International Monetary Fund was created simultaneously to provide short-term lending to countries suffering from balance of payments problems. Since World War II, though, the World Bank has * evolved from a long-term lender for Third World public works to a technocratic antipoverty institution with some...
...Commodore Hotel in West Beirut had been a place where journalists congregated to relax and trade war stories. Today, it is so deserted that the bartender "feels guilty for even being here." Most evenings, there is not enough in the till for his salary. Just before one of the last remaining U.S. journalists, Associated Press Correspondent Ed Blanche, finally left the war-torn city last month, he stopped off at the bar. A well-known gunman, slightly wobbly from drink, approached Blanche, tucked an object into his pocket, then burst out laughing. "I failed to see the funny side...
...Latin American nations' call for increased dialogue and decreased reliance on military methods is their remedy for mounting tensions in the war-torn region. Specifically, they encouraged the resumption of talks between Washington and Managua that were cut off in 1984. They also endorsed the removal from Central America of foreign advisors and military bases and offered guarantees for the establishment of democratic governments, addressing two of the Reagan Administration's major complaints about the Sandinistas...
...this lack of media attention? One might be tempted to think that the cost and danger of sending reporters into a distant war-torn land prevents adequate media coverage, but this is clearly not the case. The reports filed by journalists working at the refugee camps in the relative safety of northern Pakistan are quite numerous, and, combined with the smaller number of reports from inside Afghanistan, provide such graphic and horrifying evidence of Soviet atrocities that it's hard to imagine a more gripping and newsworthy event in the world today...