Word: flagrante
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rocket launchers and other artillery through the thick sand of the bush. According to captured prisoners, SWAPO commanders told their troops that UNTAG would allow them to establish military bases in Namibia, where they would be "confined to barracks" like the South African battalions. But their deployment was a flagrant violation of the cease-fire agreement, which calls for SWAPO forces to remain north of the 16th parallel, some 100 miles beyond the border...
...explosion of ethnic violence in Azerbaijan a year ago caught Gorbachev without a workable nationalities policy. The Armenians are enraged by what they claim are flagrant cases of ethnic abuse against their compatriots living in Azerbaijan. Gorbachev's prestige plummeted in Armenia when he gave a finger-wagging lecture to Armenian intellectuals who had come to present their case in Moscow last summer and when he ended his snap tour of the Armenian earthquake zone last December with another outburst against nationalists...
...committee's struggle over Tower began some five weeks ago in a friendly fashion and on loftier issues. The members were aware that the FBI had extensively probed the twice-divorced Tower's personal life, including allegations that the onetime Senator had carried on flagrant affairs, even while serving as the chief U.S. negotiator at the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) in Geneva. But after George Bush, who was then President-elect, declared that Tower had been given a "clean bill of health" by the FBI and then nominated him to lead the Pentagon, those concerns temporarily subsided...
...other campuses, where there have been flagrant instances of racism, it has not been difficult to draw students to AWARE-type events. Most undergraduates today are enlightened enough to lash out against racial hatred when it appears in highly visible forms...
...force and begin a massive effort to undermine the Klan. Until then Director J. Edgar Hoover's insistence that the bureau was a strictly investigative agency forced FBI agents to invest far more energy in busting stolen car rings and foiling bank robberies than in probing even the most flagrant depredations against blacks. In 1961 the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights suggested that since the bureau was often so closely linked to Southern law-enforcement officials, another group might take over the handling of civil rights cases. Justice Department prosecutors became so dissatisfied with the bureau's lethargic performance...