Word: groupe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group is composed of Harvard undergraduates, homeless people, lower income Cambridge residents and community activists...
...situation doubly frustrating is that distribution networks now exist in Eritrea and Tigre -- if only the government would put them to use. But the organizations are controlled by the rebel fronts. The Mengistu government might be less obdurate if the food were funneled through the Joint Relief Partnership, a group of five Ethiopian churches without ties to any of the rebel groups. In response to heavy international pressure, Mengistu hinted that the government might work with the churches to open "corridors of safe passage" through the hardest-hit regions. But he has yet to give formal approval...
...serious consequences. Nothing less than the territorial integrity of the Soviet Union, and possibly the survival of its leader, seemed to be at stake. The stage was set on Dec. 20, when Lithuania's Communist Party declared independence from its national counterpart. At the time, Gorbachev angrily told a group of Lithuanian parliamentarians that they had "stabbed perestroika in the heart." But Gorbachev knew that the party's maneuver was merely a dress rehearsal for the day when the republic would try to secede from the nation. In local elections on Feb. 24, Lithuanians are expected to elect a republican...
...secret Communist Party document has reportedly revealed that in more than 30 cities, workers hit by recession have applied for permits to stage demonstrations. One group in Chongqing, in southwestern China, gave as its proposed slogan, "We want food to eat." China's leaders are well aware that economic deprivation, at least as much as political repression, motivated the popular uprisings in Eastern Europe...
Genocide theorists disagree on whether whites are consciously plotting black extermination. Some, like the Rev. Cecil Williams of San Francisco's Glide United Methodist Memorial Church, pin the drug epidemic on "a group of whites somewhere" who think blacks are getting too much political power. Others charge that the U.S. Government developed AIDS to wipe out blacks, testing it on homosexuals before unleashing it in the ghetto. More widespread is the view, put forth by Joseph Lowery, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, that genocide will inevitably occur because the U.S. Government is not doing enough to stanch...