Word: war-torn
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...recommendations took five months of debate to frame and 132 pages to spell out. But the essence of the Kissinger commission's prescription for U.S. policy toward war-torn Central America could be put in a single word: more. More recognition, to begin with, that the U.S. has a vital interest in combatting Marxist revolution in the isthmus, and the misery and oppression that feed such revolution. Thus much more aid of every kind: more guns, ammunition, helicopters for friendly governments, but also more money to buy food, build roads and schools, train nurses and dentists. More pressure...
...tireless quest for realism, Hollywood has already used the war-torn Middle East as a backdrop for such films as Hanna K. starring Jill Clayburgh, and the recently completed The Ambassador, starring Robert Mitchum and Rock Hudson. Now comes The Little Drummer Girl, which was shot on the barren hills of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Based on John le Carré's best-selling novel, the movie stars Diane Keaton, 38, as Charlie, an impressionable English actress who is recruited by Israeli intelligence for a double-agent mission against Palestinian terrorists. Keaton trained with a bazooka...
...Foreign Minister, Yitzhak Shamir. Other leaders consolidated their power. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl led their conservative parties to huge electoral victories, Thatcher's Tories triumphing by the biggest British landslide since 1945. Pope John Paul II made moving pilgrimages to war-torn Central America and to Poland, where crowds of a million turned out daily to receive the native-born Pontiffs blessings...
They are part of a multinational force that arrived in Beirut 13 months ago to help the Lebanese government restore order in the war-torn country...
That 1200 United States Marines were dispatched to "keep the peace" in Lebanon is appalling. That the U.S. Congress sanctioned their presence under the War Powers Act is even more appalling. There is no peace to keep in Lebanon; war has been the status quo in Lebanese politics for over a decade. However earnest the Marines in their desire to bring peace and democracy to this pitiful, war-torn country, their presence can not change the sectional hatred and hostility that has fragmented Lebanon for many years. Dozens of armed factions, each with its own peculiar aims and loyalties, will...