Word: combatting
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Noting that abolitionist Frederick Douglass spoke at Faneuil Hall, the vice president promised to combat discrimination and advocate for working class people...
...leaders have been just as enterprising as the old kingpins. When Peru and Bolivia put the squeeze on coca cultivation, the traffickers moved their crops to southern Colombia, which the government in Bogota had largely ceded to Marxist guerrillas. Then, improved refining techniques enabled traffickers to increase output. To combat the growers, the White House has asked for $1.6 billion in aid. For foreign aid, it's a staggering sum. If Congress approves the money--and Republicans there seem eager to--Colombia will become the third largest recipient of U.S. assistance, behind Israel and Egypt...
...guerrillas who are aligned with them and who have waged a 35-year insurgency against the government. What's more, U.S. officials say privately that the $1.6 billion would be just the first installment. Clinton's successor would have to pump in hundreds of millions more. No American combat troops are planned, but otherwise the U.S. would be joining the war in Colombia...
EXPELLED. JOSE IMPERATORI, 46, Cuban diplomat in Washington; because of alleged ties to an immigration official charged with spying for Havana. Imperatori had threatened a hunger strike to combat the "major slander" and clear his name, but the FBI moved swiftly to deport him on Saturday night...
...surface, the distinction between the two organizations seems slight. Both are designed to combat overseas sweatshops, both advocate a system of monitoring and working with local non-governmental organizations (NGOs...