Word: citizens
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Later the same year, the unexplained disappearance of Boris Weisfeiler, a Moscow-born U.S. citizen who was hiking near the colony, aroused the concern of the U.S. State Department. Since then, a Chilean government investigation has concluded that Weisfeiler drowned in a nearby river. U.S. officials consider the case still open. The Pinochet government has given the colony its tacit support. West Germany, for its part, has been reluctant to speak out against Schafer in the past because of close ties between Colonia Dignidad and officials at the West German embassy in Santiago...
...month, 2000 rioters took over the streets of the capital, Tegucigalpa, and burnt two U.S. embassy buildings to protest the United States' illegal extradition of noted drug trafficker, Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros. The riots were not in support of Matta, but in protest of the extradition of this Honduran citizen for crimes committed abroad, a direct violation of the Honduran Constitution...
...until he was interrupted by an irritated older woman with a more local concern. "Excuse me, Governor," she asked in a raspy Boston accent, "when are you going to put our streetcars back to the Arborway?" "As soon as we get the place shaped up," Dukakis answered. Another elderly citizen insisted on conveying "one bit of advice for you -- don't worry." Dukakis assured this well-wisher, "I don't worry. I'm having a good time...
...John Sasso is a friend of the governor and has every right to talk to him as does any citizen," Bush spokesman Peter Teeley said yesterday...
Egar noted that Razo was considered a community leader and a model citizen in La Habra, where he helped raise money for cancer treatment and was active in the local boys' club. He turned down offers from Yale and Princeton to come to Harvard...