Word: help
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...only 144 seats, compared with the Socialists' 211. But Zhelev, 55, a philosopher turned politician and longtime anticommunist, managed to hold his own fractious movement together at a time when the rifts in the Socialist Party were growing wider daily. In the end, he won the presidency with the help of votes from reformers within the Socialist Party. The new President will have the power to call fresh parliamentary elections...
...Saudis did not give it full support. Shutting down the pipeline would be only the first step for Riyadh. An effective halt to Saddam's oil exports would eliminate 10% of the free world's supply from the market. Saudi Arabia would be expected to increase its output to help make up the shortfall and keep prices from soaring. That would be another red flag to Saddam. In short, if an embargo is to work, the U.S. must provide credible guarantees of military protection to Saudi Arabia. Already there were proposals in Washington for dispatching a wing of U.S. fighter...
...tension reached as far as the hills of Tennessee and farms of Wisconsin, where local Air National Guardsmen were hurriedly called from their civilian jobs to help ferry U.S. troops and gear the 5000 miles to Saudi Arabia...
Affirmative action usually serves only as an additional boost to America's already upwardly-mobile, and doesn't really help the poor. Most who are familiar with welfare-state politics or inner city ghettoes will agree with this assessment...
...drug embargo, perhaps the public, a majority of whom believe the War on Drugs cannot be won, should look more askance at the War's leaders. And they should begin to understand that habitual drug users, rather than vicious fiends deserving punishment, are people who desperately need our help...