Word: enterances
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...landslide victory in Albania's first free elections last spring, the old communist rulers have had trouble holding on to power as the wave of reform sweeps over Europe's poorest and most isolated country. Reincarnated as the Socialist Party, they were forced by a rash of strikes to enter into a coalition with the opposition Democratic Party in June. Last week Democratic leader Sali Berisha charged his governing partners with "attempting to create a neodictatorship" and pulled his seven ministers out of the 21-member Cabinet...
...both sides agree on the ends of changing the policy, that of paying for people's educations and giving Harvard students the option to enter the military. Only the means to those ends are in dispute; yet because the issue involves weighing civil rights against educational opportunity, the debate is completely polarized, and completely paralyzed...
...goal was to use historical detail as much as possible. If a character is entering a city, he must use the right bridges of the period, he must enter the proper gates. On the streets he must meet the people of the time.... Sometimes this [research] was not a problem. For example, the Inquisition, which was repressive in the manner of Stalin's police or the Gestapo, was also very methodic. In their documents they recorded everything they did. They list every name and every accusation. I made use of such documents...
...conditions in Haiti improve and the government is restored. But the President, seeking to dissuade thousands more Haitians from taking to the water in the hope of gaining asylum, insisted that the massive interception of the boat people that started last month must continue. Allowing the boat people to enter the U.S., he warned, would only lead more Haitians to risk their lives in the dangerous journey...
...practice their religion and to hold a job -- if they can find one," explains a State Department spokesman. In 1981 the Reagan Administration reached an agreement with Haitian dictator "Baby Doc" Duvalier that permits -- but does not require -- the U.S. to return Haitians suspected of trying to illegally enter its territory, provided Haiti gives assurances that no reprisals will be taken against them. Through the end of 1990, more than 24,000 Haitian refugees were caught trying to enter the U.S., but only five were granted political asylum...