Word: banners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau announced his resignation over barely losing the secession referendum, it looks as though Canada may soon be dealing with an even more formidable separatist. Leaders of the Parti Quebecois are already trying to revive their push for secession under the banner of Lucien Bouchard, the movement's charismatic co-leader. Since Parizeau's decision to leave Tuesday, at least two potential replacements have said they would defer to a Bouchard candidacy. The Parti Quebecois, which took power in Quebec last year, chooses its leader through a vote of all 150,000 members. TIME's William...
Another student carried a sign reading "Hey Newt Get your slimy hands off my diploma." still another waved a banner saying, "Weld, not all of us were born with a silver spoon in out mouths," in reference to Massachusetts Gov. William F. weld '66, also a Republican...
...postcommunist leaders could be found in the third row from the front, where Fidel Castro (fifth from right), in a business suit rather than his customary fatigues, loomed over Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic to his right. In the fifth row, Yasser Arafat (just below the "50" banner) was placed near Yitzhak Rabin of Israel--Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, on Arafat's left, separated them. To Rabin's right was Tomiichi Murayama, the Prime Minister of Japan. Nelson Mandela (second row, second from left) wore dark glasses. One of the tiniest countries in the world, San Marino, was represented...
...join the Million Man March this week in Washington. That's not because I disagree with the march's stated purpose of inspiring a moral and spiritual rebirth among African American men; to the contrary, I applaud it. But however noble the cause, I will not rally behind any banner hoisted by the march's main organizers, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. As Mary Frances Berry, chairperson of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, declared in a letter to the Washington Post last week, "I do not trust Louis Farrakhan or Benjamin Chavis...
...joyful Palestinians ululated and fired pistols into the air, Israeli forces began their withdrawal from parts of the West Bank. Despite pledges of peace and brotherhood signed last month in Washington, the transfer of power in several towns was terse and businesslike at best. A banner in Arabic that stretched across one town's city hall read TODAY SALFIT, TOMORROW JERUSALEM. Scoffed an Israeli soldier: "Wishful thinking...