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...reaction is, 'Vote for Silber to free B.U.--the reign of terror will be over!" said B.U. sophomore Jason T. Massman. "There's also a faction that says, 'Let not sic the mad dog on the entire state...
...night sessions of wrangling, the 15 members agreed unanimously to a British suggestion to marry the U.S.-drafted text with a watered-down version of a proposal made by Yemen on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization and backed by the seven other nonaligned Council members. The Yemeni faction had wanted the resolution to blast only Israel but, faced with the threat of a U.S. veto, the group relented in the end. The approved draft "expresses alarm" at the violence in general, thus indirectly criticizing the rock-throwing Palestinians, and "condemns especially" the behavior of the Israeli security forces...
...judge read the verdict in the Moscow courtroom last week, the defendant erupted. "I'm ready to die for Russia," yelled Konstantin Smirnov- Ostashvili, 54, leader of a faction of Pamyat, the ultra-right, Russian nationalist movement. "It's all a lie!" Unfazed, the judge sentenced Smirnov-Ostashvili to two years of hard labor for shouting anti-Semitic threats at a meeting of liberal writers last January...
...separate vote. "The President's negotiating team insisted on protecting the superrich," said Obey. "This agreement simply continues the march that was started in 1981 when budget and tax changes tripled America's deficits and dropped the word fairness from the vocabulary of the Federal Government." The Obey faction proposed sharper cuts in defense spending and higher income tax rates for those with incomes over...
...Kuwait has provided capital to developing Arab countries through the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development. Kuwait was a principal contributor to the Fund, established to help Egypt and Jordan recover from the 1967 and 1973 wars, and along with Saudi Arabia, has contributed to the more moderate Palestinian faction. Kuwait became one of the world's major aid donors in 1977, when its contributions reached eight percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). This percentage was the largest in the world from 1981-85. In addition, Kuwait has been active in directing economic, medical and humanitarian aid to Pakistan...