Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week to arrive instead of two days. The phone system is a mess, because the Palestinian Authority has added twice as many lines as it was designed for. Building construction is so unregulated that Arafat's own Planning Ministry warns of a "forthcoming disaster''; the Authority manages to collect even less in taxes than the Israelis did, and the security forces especially have developed a reputation for petty corruption. A common complaint is that medical services have declined; Arafat's wife Suha won't give birth in the Gaza Strip -- she has flown to Paris to await the arrival...
Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama apologized to the estimated 200,000 women forced into prostitution by Japanese armed forces during World War II. The government also appointed a group he hopes will collect at least $22.7 million to compensate the comfort women, of whom about 1,000 are believed to survive...
...death-labor camps--extreme examples of human inhumanity--the idealist editor fails to describe the nature of contemporary chain gang labor. Instead, Altman compares the disease-ridden prison camps of early 20th century America to the most horrible places of extermination know to recorded history. Alabama prisoners who today collect waste from the roadsides, and who suffer through heat, cold and embarrassment, face only the indignity which they brought upon themselves, rather then the certain and horrible death which millions of innocents endured merely because they were born. Mr. Altman, comparisons such as yours do not under any circumstances" come...
...intensity does not put one in mind of Desert Storm. There are two committees registered with the Federal Election Commission, one based in California and one in suburban Washington. Andrew DiMarco, a California lawyer, calls his outfit the Draft Committee for Colin Powell's Army. So far he's collected 13,400 signatures urging Powell to run, but his drive is going into low gear until Powell gives some clearer sign of his intentions. The other committee is the Exploratory Draft Colin Powell for President Committee, led by a group of black Republicans. They have sent a letter to Powell...
...Bosnian government not lift the siege, but the situation of Sarajevo today is even more dire than before. Last week the United Nations abandoned altogether its 16-month effort to shield the city from Serbian bombardment. By Monday U.N. forces had withdrawn from the 10 depots originally established to collect and control the Serbian cannons, howitzers, tanks and artillery pieces that were used to bombard the city. Moreover, it now appears that despite protestations it would never do so, the U.N. had in fact made a deal in which it agreed, among other things, not to conduct air strikes against...