Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This police raid threw the support of the majority of campus behind the SDS demonstrators; before the raid, many students were against the takeover of University Hall...
...confirmed the decision to use the canisters, she responded with a raid on FBI headquarters. Despite treading cautiously around the issue during her Friday media briefing, she made clear that her anger at the FBI isn?t restricted to the fact that she put her credibility on the line behind an account that some people in the bureau had to know was false ?- the very fact of using hot rounds specifically violated an assurance she says she?d been given by the FBI that only cold tear gas rounds would be used during the siege. With the nation...
...Chavez scored an important victory Monday when the Constitutional Assembly, elected in July to draw up a new constitution, effectively dissolved the country?s center-right-controlled parliament. The protests of opposition legislators won?t resonate with the electorate, who are still overwhelmingly behind the 45-year-old former paratrooper and failed coup leader. "Most Venezuelans support Chavez because the country?s traditional parties were so corrupt," says TIME Latin America bureau chief Tim McGirk. But enthused though they may be by Chavez's promise to share the country?s oil wealth with the impoverished majority, they may be disappointed...
...Just tuning in? The Interahamwe are the Hutu militants behind the 1994 massacre of more than half a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda. They make their camps in the wilds of eastern Congo - formerly known as Zaire - wreaking havoc there or across the border in Rwanda, and current Congolese president Laurent Kabila has shown little inclination to control them. (Rwanda, the region?s military heavyweight, once backed Kabila?s rebellion against Mobutu Sese Seko because Mobutu would not control the militias; now it is backing the new Congo rebels against Kabila for the same reason.) So what happened...
...Jack Kevorkian may be behind bars, serving a 10-to-25-year sentence for murder, but authorities in New Mexico suspect that one of his associates may be carrying on his work in their state. A year ago, Donna Brennan, 54, was found dead in her Rio Rancho, N.M., home. She had been suffering from multiple sclerosis for more than 20 years, but an autopsy revealed she died from a lethal dose of pentobarbital. A neighbor told police that the morning Brennan died, she had been visited by a man named George. The authorities identified him as Georges Reding...