Word: movements
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Although the P.L.O. may profit from the perception that it rejects Abu Nidal's movement, terrorism's tentacles are spreading. Alliances are said to be forming in Lebanon between followers of the F.R.C. and members of the pro- Iranian Shi'ite Hizballah. "I spend more time worrying about the fractionalization of terrorism than I do about the disintegration of ((Abu Nidal's)) organization," says a Western diplomat in Cairo. "Smaller groups are harder to find...
...starting point is that freedom of movement is a basic human right. Thus there could be no better proof of our sincerity about renewing socialism than by starting with human rights. I considered it a disadvantage that we were signers of the Helsinki Final Act and the Vienna declaration yet we did not abide by certain parts of those agreements. We intend by this action to emphasize the unity between word and deed. Last but not least, let me stress that to open the border does not mean that its existence should be questioned...
...These demonstrations had been going on for several weeks. The situation became more aggravated on Oct. 9. Members of my and other parties refused to acknowledge that we were confronted with a popular movement aimed at bringing about a renewal in this country. I cannot confirm the existence of any order to shoot or that a distribution of ammunition took place. But clashes between demonstrators and the People's Police were possible...
...controlled than her already well-disciplined self. Her speech becomes stricter, her smile tighter. Wattleton monitors herself closer than the camera does, for she is intent on being nothing less than perfect, as though a single dangling modifier or wayward statistic will bring her down, and with her the movement in which she so fervently believes...
Webster turned out to be just such an opportunity. The decision had the unintended consequence of rousing the moribund pro-choice movement. Wattleton had long maintained that a silent majority of American women did not want anyone tampering with their reproductive freedom. "Now the majority is getting noisy," she says. Witness the recent national Mobilization for Women's Lives and the elections in New Jersey and Virginia in which voters selected pro-choice Governors. Wattleton asserts that she does not want her teenage daughter to be fighting the same battles she is. To that end, this woman who looks like...