Word: abroader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Increasingly, Baltic leaders are hearing demands for "national rights." For some proponents the phrase means full sovereignty, now. For others it means autonomy within a radically more lenient U.S.S.R. Estonian officials are busily planning to introduce their own currency, airline and diplomatic missions abroad. The so-called popular fronts, with their platforms calling for regional self-determination, are well on their way to taking over the power structure. The secessionists and the federalists disagree about tactics and timetable, but not about the dream of independence...
...international triumphs have not protected her from some searing reviews at home. "Norway has some of the most polluted fjords in the world," charges Geir Wang-Andersen, a toxic-waste activist for Greenpeace. "People abroad see her as this great environmentalist -- but we just laugh a little, because we don't see her that...
...face of pressure from abroad and complaints from environmentalists at home, Brazil has grudgingly begun to respond. In April, only a few months after denouncing the environmental movement as a foreign plot to seize the forests, the Sarney administration announced a hastily patched-together conservation package dubbed Our Nature. Much of the language was ambiguous, but the program contained promising provisions, such as the temporary suspension of tax incentives that spur the most wasteful forest exploitation. Says Celio Valle, director of ecosystems at the government's newly created environmental agency: "Before, we used to consider Brazilian environmental groups...
However, acquaintences of the 20-year-old dissident say that study will not be the only thing on his mind. Since fleeing China last June in the wake of the government crackdown on protesters, Wuer Kaixi has pledged to carry on the fight for democracy from abroad...
...Abroad this summer, deLone and Minkus played tennis in Italy while Henikoff, playing with Yale's Lynn Rosensratch, earned a bronze medal in doubles at the Maccabiah Games in Israel...