Word: emboldened
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...being every bit as autocratic as the dictator he despises, Mas Canosa threw his support behind Clinton's decision to bottle up the refugees to keep the pressure on Castro. Mas Canosa insists that the Administration's economic crackdown and its refusal to deal with Castro will eventually embolden Cubans to drive him from power. "We all want a peaceful solution in Cuba, but that's not what Castro wants," he says. "He is leading the country toward a violent | period of change, which I think is inevitable...
...force or removing the causes of the violence. It was the former that prompted Mayor Kelly's plan to deploy the National Guard. The presence of armed troops would no doubt have a sobering effect on those spreading havoc. Knowing that help was really around the corner would also embolden citizens of these areas and alleviate the siege mentality present in these urban areas...
...progovernment commanders, reportedly in a shoot-out. Capping months of wrangling, Tajik sources say, Sangak Safarov and Faizali Saidov went for their guns during an argument over the fate of refugees seeking to return from Afghanistan. Authorities fear the deadly duel could spark reprisals among the chieftains' followers and embolden Islamic and nationalist insurgents to reignite the fighting that has already claimed more than 20,000 lives...
...extremists really prove to be. In the end, the balance of power between the President at one end and the front at the other may be decided by the man in the middle -- Volsky. If neither Yeltsin nor Volsky can achieve some kind of consensus, the Congress could embolden the most radical opponents of reform. Then the fear that dark forces are secretly planning a coup could become a reality...
...possible repercussions of that decision. McGann, a Houston music-store clerk, had his medical insurance suddenly cut from $1 million to $5,000 after his employer learned he had AIDS. An unusual alliance of American Medical Association officials and AIDS activists says the court's inaction may embolden other employers who promise medical benefits to retroactively refuse insurance payouts . McGann did not live to hear the bad news: he died in June...