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"Tonight this campaign ends," Roosevelt said in his concession speech. "But our purpose never ends."
In a concession to the I.R.A. after its cease-fire announcement last month, British Prime Minister John Major lifted a ban on broadcasting the voices of Irish Republican Army leaders. Former PM Margaret Thatcher banned the I.R.A. voices from British broadcasts in 1988, but radio and TV stations simply used...
Exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide said he would encourage supporters in his country's Parliament to go along with an amnesty vote pardoning Haiti's military junta and their police "attaches." Whether he likes it or not, that's a major concession U.S. officials agreed to in former President...
The MUSA group boldly asked for timber rights to more than 15 million acres of Suriname, nearly one-third of the country. The Venetiaan administration avoided a messy political debate by instead granting a smaller concession of 375,000 acres near the Guyana border. MUSA then began logging without specifying...
Neighboring Guyana, also desperate for quick cash, has granted huge concessions to Asian logging consortiums. The former British colony, a victim of years of Marxist economics, is poorer than any other Latin American nation except Haiti and is staggering under a $2 billion foreign debt load, an amount 10 times...