Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another surprise addition to the Presidential Council, Yarin, 50, is co- chairman of the United Workers' Front, formed last year in 29 cities to oppose free-market reforms and defend fellow Russians against attacks by ethnic movements in far-flung Soviet republics. A construction worker with a high school education, he is a member of the Supreme Soviet and is on record as blaming the bureaucracy for the misery of workers' lives, food shortages, infant mortality and pollution. Conservatives have been attracted by his strong personality and persuasive public speaking. The Front claims that Gorbachev is dividing the society into...
...leader Mengistu Haile Mariam. But most child warriors belong to rebel groups, where how much they fight depends on how desperately their services are needed. The mujahedin of Afghanistan have boys as young as + nine battling Kabul. In Burma twelve-year-olds are recruited by the Karen rebels to defend their jungle territory. In El Salvador the F.M.L.N. is an equal-opportunity guerrilla group, one of the few to allow young girls to bear arms alongside the boys...
Romano himself agrees after a manner. "I was good ol' affable Anthony. I myself had a lot to do with [the problem]...but you have to stand up to defend your position without alienating people. Obviously I wasn't able to do that...
Shell Oil Spokesperson: In this well-remunerated position, Bok would defend the company's investments in South Africa before the press. Keeping a straight face, he would have to insist that the firm does not make political statements--despite the obvious fact that the investment constitutes involvement in, and sanction of, institutionalized racism...
...Knesset last week, "Arabs only understand when they are clubbed on the head." Palestinian leader Faisal Husseini, one of 46 Palestinians who launched a hunger strike to protest last week's killings, was no more encouraging in his assessment of the situation. "This is our last attempt to defend our program of nonviolence," said Husseini. "If it fails, the consequences will be terrible...