Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experience in foreign policy matters exceeds any of his rivals. With only one exception, the candidates' positions on contra aid are the same, but only Gephardt has led the fight against it. And he won eight out of nine times. The Democratic party has long recognized that backing the rebels, even covertly, defies America's democratic principles. Now we need a leader who can ensure that a fair and just policy makes it through Congress and that ugly, backroom methods are not used to circumvent the proper political process...
...phone lines were cut, and police appeared on the street when he lived. By Saturday morning an officer who arrived to tell Delvalle to leave the country found that he had fled. Later Delvalle claimed in a phone interview that he was still in Panama and vowed to fight...
...ostentatiously at the rink's edge as Thomas deftly executed the seven required moves. "I was aware of it because she was standing right there," Thomas said. "Katarina watches all the time. Maybe she was trying to psych me out, but it doesn't work. It just makes me fight harder." That night Thomas nailed her performance, hitting every jump perfectly and engaging the audience with her megawatt smile...
...gunmen are thought to have struck as far away as Eastern Europe; a year ago Enrique Parejo Gonzalez, Colombia's Ambassador to Hungary, was ambushed in Budapest. Last November men armed with guns attacked the home of Juan Gomez Martinez, a candidate for mayor of Medellin who vows to fight the drug scourge if he wins an election scheduled for March 13. They missed their target, and Gomez Martinez now campaigns under the protection of six bodyguards...
...submachine guns. Also found were assorted 9-mm pistols, infrared night-vision scopes and a sniper rifle. "They have the kind of arms you only see in Rambo movies," says William Jaramillo Gomez, the mayor of Medellin. "We are suffering because of a lack of international solidarity in the fight against drugs...