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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...1980s, when more than a dozen terrorist bombs were aimed at exiles who dissented from its position. Lately other dialogistas have come forward, including even Antonio Veciana, a co-founder of Alpha 66, an anti-Castro paramilitary group, who now supports some compromise. "Those who had been silent have begun to lose their fear," says Menoyo. "They have started to speak...
...political world has begun to focus on the immensity of her achievement. How on earth did she manage to get there? She was elected to Parliament at 32 in 1958 (five years before The Feminine Mystique was published). She parried her way through the complacent, male-dominated councils of power-no woman had ever roiled those waters. Couldn't the old boys see her coming? After all, there was nothing subtle about her personality or her approach...
Grand Canyon National Park, the crown jewel of America's park system, is being overrun. And like many other underfunded and deteriorating national parks, it is ill prepared for the invasion. Summer has barely begun, and cars and campers are already queuing up in lines nearly a mile long at the entrance gates. The wait for dinner tables at park restaurants is two hours, and families without advance reservations are being turned away from campgrounds that have been booked for weeks...
...outfits. These deaths have fueled a greater push to set national standards for such programs. About 35 therapeutic wilderness camps have formed a coalition to establish comprehensive guidelines, and groups such as the Association for Experiential Education and the Council on Accreditation of Services for Families and Children have begun putting an accreditation process in place. Says Jeff Liddle, who oversees the aee's accreditation process: "In most states anybody who can buy some backpacks and print a brochure can be out there...
...nation's most powerful lobbying groups came under unwelcome government scrutiny. The National Rifle Association said the IRS had begun an aggressive audit of its finances. And Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson launched a series of hearings on the political and commercial practices of the American Association of Retired Persons, accusing the seniors group of straying from "any reasonable description of a nonprofit organization...