Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Amnesty case, a West German judge asked the Chilean courts to arrange an inspection tour of the colony. Last week the managing director of Amnesty International's West German section announced in Parral that inspections of the surrounding terrain have so far supported testimony by former DINA prisoners who claim they were taken to Colonia Dignidad to be tortured. During the next two days a group that included a Chilean judge, Amnesty Attorney Maximo Pacheco, colony lawyers and representatives of the West German government was allowed inside the colony. According to Pacheco, the group identified four underground rooms that matched...
...depth of Bennett's biases is exhibited by his claim that the aim of Stanford's "Cultures, Ideas, and Values"--studying works by and concerning women and minorities alongside established Western masterpieces--"Trivializes the entire purpose" of education. The Bible and the thoughts of Plato naturally deserve study, but such texts as the Koran and the writings of Confucius can not be ignored, presenting new perspectives, and representing major literary and spiritual schools of thought. The fact that this country's Secretary of Education believes that societies and groups outside of mainstream Western life do not merit study by American...
...night's returns left the Massachusetts governor with 1540 delegates, to 942 for Jackson. It takes 2081 to claim the nomination...
...landslide triumphs left Dukuakis with three-quarters of the delegates needed to lay claim to the nomination, buttressing his image as the party's 1988 choice in all but name...
Dukakis, in contrast, was several hundred delegates ahead of Jackson but several hundred shy of the total needed to claim the Democratic nomination...