Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Defeat him through the exercise of your own rights to free speech. Make noise. Shout to the world the nature of Mobuto's disgraces against human decency and dignity. Deprive him of the respectability he hopes to obtain. Make it clear that when he speaks at Harvard he taints the honor of Harvard. In short, make him uncomfortable, but don't be offensive...
...beautiful day for a wedding -- crisp, clear and, for China in midsummer, relatively cool. The latest typhoon's high winds have swept away the air pollution, and under a brilliant blue sky the guests are chatting in the hollow of a terraced field beside a single spindly tree -- symbolic decoration in a country whose scant arable land continues to disappear. Arranged neatly alongside the makeshift altar, the gifts intended for the bride's parents include a new refrigerator, a 24-in. color television set and a jet black Yamaha motorcycle. The presents are ogled, but atop the TV a photograph...
...Governor Alexander Farrelly, who stayed on St. Thomas, 37 miles away, insisted that reports of lawlessness were distorted and exaggerated. Witnesses, he said, may have mistaken looters for police and guardsmen because they were wearing stolen uniforms and driving hijacked vehicles. Farrelly delayed asking for help until it became clear that Washington was going to send troops whether he wanted them...
...little useful advice for Moscow's ethnic revolts. But Shevardnadze made it clear he was in search of American technical know-how for the ailing Soviet economy. Together with several U.S. and Soviet economists, the pair chewed over such specifics as ruble convertibility and Soviet Treasury bonds. "There is a change in the psychology of how they are prepared to talk about themselves and in their attitude toward us," said a Baker aide. "There is a degree of trust emerging...
...State Department officials yesterday made clear that reports of Chinese embassy officials "intimidating" student nationals at American universities are "of serious concern," three days before a Washington demonstration is planned to show support for the pro-democracy movement...