Word: allowed
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...speak. As his compatriots -- who had taken to calling their President "Mobutu Sese Sescu" -- crowded around radios and TVs set at full volume, Mobutu gave his answer to the stunning events in Eastern Europe. Reversing positions he had tenaciously reavowed only months before, Mobutu announced that he would allow two parties aside from his to compete for power and would turn the day-to-day running of the government over to a new Prime Minister. "Wisdom comes at 60," Mobutu told reporters, inflating his age by a year. "It is time to let go little by little...
...years, to embrace the idea of pluralism, but he has yet to schedule a promised popular referendum. In the case of Mobutu and Houphouet-Boigny, their utterances have contained a hint of "Apres moi, le deluge." These old-timers may be calculating that they can stand back, allow chaos to break out as competing factions scuffle for power, then return triumphantly. Mobutu's police did their part to encourage disarray two weeks ago when they fired on people at an unauthorized political rally in Kinshasa, killing two participants...
...experience," she claims. "Americans did not do it, nor were they its targets or victims." But it was President Roosevelt who did nothing to increase the immigration quotas, and the State Department that refused to fill even those narrow quotas, and the U.S. Congress that rejected a measure to allow in 20,000 children. And when Jewish leaders pleaded for Allied bombers to knock out the railroad lines to Auschwitz, Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy responded, "I am very chary of getting the army involved in this...
Researchers have yet to pinpoint the cause of CFS. The Epstein-Barr virus is active in some, but not all, sufferers, and experts doubt it is the root of the trouble. The illness seems to involve some malfunction of the immune system, perhaps triggered by stress, that can allow any number of normally dormant viruses, including Epstein-Barr, herpes VI and even polio-like pathogens, to become active...
...other business, the council took action on ameasure that would allow Cambridge to strengthenits rent control regulations. The measure wassubmitted to the state legislature for approvallast January, and was recently returned in anamended from to the council...