Word: anties
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Organizers said never before had so many large anti-government marches been held in the country simultaneously...
...issues like abortion, tuition tax credits and the flag, though Bush has done little or nothing to advance those causes. For example, in June he called for a constitutional amendment to reverse the Supreme Court's ruling that flag burning is legal. But last week, after the Senate passed anti-flag-burning legislation as part of a plan for derailing any change in the Constitution, the White House reiterated its preference for an amendment but stopped short of threatening a veto. In late September Bush broke weeks of silence on the abortion issue by praising the "protection of human life...
...policy. The President dismissed Democratic complaints that he has been slow to respond to the dramatic changes taking place in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union with the comment, "I don't want to do anything dumb." That remark has several translations, among them: "I don't want the anti-Communist right to accuse me of giving away the store...
...India since he fled Chinese occupation forces in 1959, was meant as a slap at Beijing: a symbol of international condemnation of the Chinese government for its crackdown on the students' democracy movement in Tiananmen Square last June and imposition of martial law in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, following anti-Chinese riots last March...
Police said six male students belonging to an "anti-U.S. death squad" scaled the walls of Gregg's residential compound and hurled tear gas at guards who tried to stop them from rushing the home...