Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drags on, random killings continue, the government is pockmarked with corruption. Even Duarte's loyalty to the U.S., which this year will supply $700 million in military, economic and disaster aid, has become a political liability. During a visit to the White House last month, Duarte kissed the American flag. Salvadorans viewed the gesture as symbolic of their dependence on American largesse...
...small pastoral pavilion a minister, flanked by a Confederate flag, conducts a memorial service for the sons and daughters of the Old South who are buried in the adjacent cemetery. The scent of warm corn bread and fried chicken wafts from a nearby picnic table. Strains of the Battle Hymn of the Republic float with gentle familiarity through the heavy air. Only the fact that it is sung in Portuguese seems inappropriate. But, in fact, it is fitting because this get-together occurs some 5,000 miles below the Mason-Dixon line, just outside a southern Brazilian city called Americana...
...speech, Dole stressed the values that hehad derived from his rural upbringing in Russell,Kansas. Standing in front of a 20-foot wideAmerican flag, Dole began his speech with aninvocational prayer and the singing of thenational anthem. Dole punctuated his address withtales about his upbringing and his World War IIexperiences, concluding that it is the nation's"values and patriotic traditions that make Americathe country that we want to live...
...Beijing's Tiananmen Square, long queues of Chinese pilgrims enter the imposing mausoleum of Chairman Mao for a fleeting glimpse of the flag-draped body. The scars of the Maoist era are still too fresh for the Chinese to emulate completely the Soviet Union's new view of history. But Deng's new society has found its own way of demythologizing the past. Visitors leaving the monument mob souvenir stands to buy cartons of cigarettes or candy boxes embossed with a golden silhouette of the mausoleum...
...fashion, by attacks and counterattacks, retaliation and revenge. The U.S. was responding to Iranian Silkworm missile strikes on the oil tankers Sungari and Sea Isle City two weeks ago. The Sungari is U.S.-owned, and the Sea Isle City is one of eleven Kuwaiti tankers now flying the American flag. President Reagan called the 85-minute blitz of the oil platforms a "prudent yet restrained response" to Iranian aggression. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger told a press briefing after the Navy action, "We consider the matter closed...