Word: cleared
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...clear that more democracy in Mexico does not mean a Mexico moving to the right but a Mexico moving to the left. There is a deep nationalism and a sense of social justice among Mexican people that Cardenas has identified with in a very mystical and mysterious way. He has become a symbol in a nation that has the most flagrant inequalities and injustices of any nation in Latin America, if not in the entire Third World. We are not the poorest country, but we are the most unequal. Cardenas has become a symbol of the desire for equality...
Thus the Rainbow's goals are quite clear for the short run: defeat 1-2-3 and win a "progressive" majority on the council...
...rules of engagement are clear-cut on both sides: if there is a target, fire. Thus the battle is largely indirect, as howitzers and mortars lob shells -- mostly inaccurately -- over the ridges. Infantry assaults are rare, mainly because it is so hard for men to move, let alone charge, at such heights and over crevasse-riddled glaciers. At 18,000 ft. and higher, even a fully acclimatized soldier carrying rifle and combat pack can jog only a few yards without losing his breath. "The terrain does not allow much movement," says a Pakistani officer at an outpost on the Baltoro...
...congregating on street corners instead of in classrooms. "My first challenge will be trying to make my students act and behave like students and not like rebels," says Ramadan, a teacher in Hebron, just 20 miles from Jerusalem. To help promote order, the Israeli army has promised to stay clear of school grounds. But few Palestinians trust the military to keep its word; fewer still expect the reopening of West Bank schools to occur without incident. Says a twelfth-grader named Salem: "How can I forget my schoolmates who were shot dead, injured and arrested by the Israeli army...
Party stewards counted the votes once, then tallied them three more times. When the result was finally announced to the 544 Deputies in the hushed Parliament last week, the reason for all the counting became clear. General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the leader of Poland's Communist Party, had won the country's presidency with just a single vote to spare...