Word: claimed
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...Washington, Congressional leaders are criticizing President Bush for his inaction during the coup attempt, while top administration officials claim a lack of reliable intelligence made intervention too risky...
Protesters at the Strand, a conservative seaside town 20 miles east of Cape Town, made "sure they had staked their claim properly. They walked around and wet their feet in God's water," said Anglican Archbishop and Harvard Overseer Desmond M. Tutu...
Quan has another claim to local fame: in the middle of his orange groves he has erected a 6-ft. shrine to Zhao Ziyang, the Communist Party leader whose tacit support of the student protesters in Tiananmen Square contributed to his ouster in late June. Near the top of the tiled column is a photograph of Zhao -- with Tommy Quan standing at his side in his Seattle Seahawks cap. "Zhao made it all possible," says Quan. "He showed people that incentives can turn China around. Now that he is out of favor, my friends think I should tear my monument...
Similarly, everyone I speak with who has attended a "re-education" session designed to promulgate the government's version of the Tiananmen tragedy professes to have listened stonily to the government's lies. Those forced to respond claim to have merely parroted the official line verbatim -- a transparent but unpunishable form of dissent...
...want Carla Hills, the U.S. Trade Representative, to break down Thailand's import barriers so that they can charge into that country's market. Specifically, the industry filed a petition under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 accusing Thailand of unfair trade practices. Hills is investigating the claim. But the American tobacco lobby is bitterly opposed by U.S. public-health advocates and the Thai government, which has the somewhat contradictory motives of protecting its citizens' health and defending the interests of its entrenched cigarette monopoly...