Word: movements
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...popularity of this movement can be attributed to a shift in focus on the part of local activists...
Burns showed six clips totaling under a fourth of the film, adding historical background and commentary about the women's suffrage movement and its two pivotal leaders, Stanton and Anthony. The three-hour documentary, fourth in series of five biographical films, will be shown...
...film] is focused initially on where [Stanton and Anthony] came from, their psychology and their friendship, but also on the political movement they founded," Burns said in an interview...
...when they overreach, and superterrorist Osama bin Laden?s adventures in China may yet prove to be his undoing. The survival prospects for the international financier-revolutionary dimmed last week following the coup in Pakistan and a U.N. Security Council resolution threatening sanctions against his hosts ?- Afghanistan?s Taliban movement ?- if they fail to extradite Bin Laden for trial in the U.S. Beijing and Moscow were more than happy to support Washington in passing the Bin Laden resolution, because the fugitive Saudi is alleged to have actively supported Islamic separatists in Chechnya and in western China. "Even more important...
...Afghanistan have been fomenting communal violence against Shi?ite Muslim communities inside Pakistan. The Taliban, predictably, lashed out at the U.N. resolution and vowed to defy international pressure to hand over the man accused of masterminding last year?s deadly attacks on U.S. embassies in East Africa. Nonetheless, the movement is anxious to consolidate its control over Afghanistan and normalize relations with the international economy ?- a quest that won?t be helped by tales of its fighters? savagery against civilians reported in Monday?s New York Times. "The Taliban can?t afford to be seen to cave...