Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week, the contradictions -- and the questions -- remained. For the time being, the old men seemed to be in control again. But for how long? If the Chinese were being cowed into submission, a long- standing compact between them and their government had been broken. Tiananmen Square and Beijing might belong to the P.L.A., but the struggle for control of China is far from over...
...Independent, CCA," he says. "I am Alfred Vellucci. I don't belong to any political parties...
Despite its current troubles, China has an immense advantage over the Soviet Union, and it gives Chinese reformers an immense advantage over their Soviet counterparts. There really is a Chinese people; 94% belong to one ethnic group, Han Chinese. By contrast, Russians make up only 51% of the population of the U.S.S.R.; they are one of more than 100 ethnic groups. Those non- Russian nationalities -- in the Caucasus, in Central Asia, along the Baltic, in the Ukraine -- are already straining at the ties that bind them to Moscow...
These two, in fact, are surprisingly funny, and they belong in a movie with a real plot; say, one on the level of The Cannonball Run. Here the white supremacists snarl and shoot off a lot of George Bush firearms, but the only dramatic tension comes from worrying about that lovely Cadillac. They wouldn't really hurt it, would they...
...combat. Authorities claim that recruits, who are promised a gun and modest stipend, come mainly from lower middle-class and rural backgrounds. But government critics contend that the squads include convicted criminals released early from jail in exchange for signing up. Members of the Panama Defense Force also reportedly belong; opposition politicians say they have photographs of one man changing from his army fatigues into a Dignity shirt. And diplomats in Panama City insist they have proof that the Battalion member who clubbed vice- presidential candidate Guillermo Ford last week is a sergeant...