Word: cyrillic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...region is naive. What is needed now is a restructuring of Pakistan's economy, which is a shambles. For a citizen who lacks the basic necessities of life, a super democracy is not the most desired thing. He naturally looks for other options, including a new political culture. CYRIL WICKREMANAYAKE Colombo, Sri Lanka...
...CYRIL WINSICK WAS SERVING AS A forward spotter for a mortar crew when he was captured by German troops near the town of Aachen in October 1944. He spent much of the following winter being force-marched across Germany before he was liberated in April 1945. A half-century later, Winsick still can't speak of his ordeal without crying, but at least it did earn him one benefit: as a former pow, he was entitled to lifelong free medical care from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Or so he thought...
Then in 1991, says Nancy, she and Mark attended a rally in Birch Run, Michigan, for the presidential campaign of America First Populist Party candidate and right-wing avatar James ("Bo") Gritz. The featured speaker was to be Gritz's vice-presidential running mate, Cyril Minett, but he failed to show. Participants, taking shelter from a pouring rain, began talking politics. Koernke started running through his theories and soon, says Nancy, "he was asked, you know, 'Get up there and talk.' So they pretty much pushed him up there, and he just kind of fell into it and started talking...
Last week Cyril Ramaphosa, the secretary-general of the A.N.C., was driving to a meeting in one of the impoverished townships near Johannesburg region. The road was so pockmarked it was hardly passable. "Even before building 10,000 houses," he says, "people must begin to see that something is happening to repair that road. Unless they see some demonstration of change in their lives, we are going to lose those people...
...transport to her polling place. "This is our day." Seven hours later, she made her X next to the party of her choice. Voting, she said, as she rested after the long journey home, "is hard labor. But we have done our duty." On Saturday A.N.C. Secretary-General Cyril Ramaphosa confidently predicted a 60% landslide for his party...