Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fighting over whether our children are alive or dead. We have a much more wide-ranging fight," she continues. "We are looking for justice, and all that that might mean: That people not forget. And besides that, the vindication of our children who after so many years were considered terrorists--this is our most important task...
...Bonafini says, the mothers' is a "fight for the morality of this country, which is no more and no less than to defend life. And to defend so strongly the lives of our children, one must defend the lives of all citizens of this country...
...tactic, he had wanted to move to reconsider. The tie was enough to give the Administration a victory. Nonetheless, Vice President George Bush cast a tie-breaking 50th vote, scoring a point with the right-wing forces that had made a cause celebre of the fight against Manion's appointment to the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Chicago...
...fight became a test of presidential prerogative in judicial appointments opposed by a protest against what Administration critics see as a conspicuous decline in the quality of judicial nominees...
...eleventh in history. The vote in the House was unanimous: 406 to 0. Convicted of tax evasion in 1984 and sentenced to two years in prison, Claiborne, 69, has refused to resign from the bench because he contends that he was a victim of government harassment. He intends to fight his ouster when the Senate hears the case in September. In the meantime, he continues to draw his $78,700-a- year salary...