Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...done much to make amends for damage suffered by Tibetans during the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s. Monasteries seized in those years have been reopened, and $700,000 has been paid to the monks in compensation. Wu also noted that China and the U.S., which accepts China's claim to Tibet, "have a different conception of human rights...
Harvard also captured its first five-man championship since 1986, when the squad defeated Mexico, 3-2, in the United States Squash Racquet Association finals. Harvard came back from 2-0 deficits against Yale in the semifinals and Mexico to claim the crown...
...cavernous dining room of Las Fontanas can seat 500, but it is only half-filled for the senior citizen breakfast. More than half of those present are glossy yuppie types rather than silver-haired pensioners. "Where the ! ! are the seniors?" Teeley mutters. Bush's speech meanders. His claim that the medical and financial condition of senior citizens has improved evokes no response. But when Bush says, "I'm talking about stability, who'll be stable in a crisis," the audience perks...
...more from centuries of bitter ethnic rivalries than from separatist urges. Says a senior Western diplomat in Moscow: "I think it would be a mistake to consider them a challenge to Soviet rule as such, or to a socialist system." Nonetheless, the turmoil has once again shattered the ritual claim that Communist "internationalism" and "Soviet patriotism" have overcome the primitive instincts of nationalism...
...dope hotline." In December and January, Detroit cops increased warrants and arrests on drug charges by 375% over the same period a year earlier. Last week a grand jury returned indictments against 22 people allegedly involved in the Chambers brothers' drug ring, an organization that at its peak, prosecutors claim, had sold up to $3 million worth of crack...