Word: anties
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most contoversial zoning changes in Cambridge cannot find even a sixth vote on the council, which is split on most issues between the four anti-development, CCA-backed councillors and four of the Independents...
...trigger a showdown. In the streets they outmaneuvered the police and kept tight ranks to prevent provocateurs from causing an incident. By constantly quoting the constitution to justify their rally, they presented themselves as anything but wild-eyed radicals. To silence criticism that they are "antiparty" or "anti- socialist," students stopped denigrating Deng and Li. Peking University students carried a banner reading WE RESOLUTELY SUPPORT THE CORRECT LEADERSHIP INSIDE THE PARTY. Asked which leaders were correct, however, one of the students holding the banner quipped, "None...
...make Noriega pay." To show its disapproval, the U.S. could restrict visas issued to pro-Noriega Panamanians, refuse to recognize the newly seated government, and turn away any ambassador sent to Washington by the Duque administration. The Administration wants to tighten sanctions, but further economic deterioration might fuel an anti-U.S. backlash. "When have economic sanctions ever toppled a regime?" asks Ambler Moss, a former U.S. Ambassador to Panama...
...City, a very conservative Mormon place, in an apartment building full of Holocaust survivors. It was very painful to be different and not understand why. I heard things as a kid that were horrifying. I thought the world was like that. It was also the blacklisting time, full of anti-Semitism. The only positive images of people like me were the comedians on Ed Sullivan. That show was the lifeline to the Jewish people, maybe even more important than Israel. It gave a positive, warped view of what it was like to be Jewish. I'd ask my father...
...vocal minority of anti-militarists used the constitutionality question to force the council's hand on the ROTC issue. But their opposition to ROTC is not restricted to discrimination, as shown by their near-riot after the debate was settled in their favor. Clearly, they agree with the democratic process only when it serves their purposes. The council was all too willing to accommodate their selective interests...