Word: flags
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jiang has resulted in a rash of arrests--47,560 in 1995--and each week the official media report the incarceration or execution of several corrupt bureaucrats or businessmen. Jiang has also approved a slew of nationalistic campaigns, including a drive against the recent fad of putting miniature foreign flags on the dashboards of private cars and taxis, a practice now officially banned in Shanghai and Dalian. ''To place a foreign flag in a place where a Chinese national flag should be placed will not only bring damage to the nation's dignity but also hurt the patriotic feelings...
...carried out amid ear-shattering recorded noises of artillery fire. In land-mine-awareness lessons, troops are instructed never to take a short cut when navigating unfamiliar terrain and never to try to defuse a mine by themselves. Instead, they are told to mark it with a red bicycle flag and white tape so that, in the words of Sergeant First Class Charles Bradley, as he conducted an outdoor course in Schwetzingen, Germany, "even the dumbest guys in your unit can identify...
...tinker with the work of the nation's founders. For the third time this year, Congress failed to pass a Republican-sponsored amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Senate fell three votes short of the two-thirds majority needed to approve an amendment banning physical desecration of the U.S. flag, which opponents argued was antithetical to free speech. Proposed amendments requiring a balanced budget and congressional term limits have also failed...
...place. It was past midnight, he was white and he was sitting despondently behind the wheel of his Chevy Cavalier. The cops asked him some questions. His answers led them to a mobile home where Meadows' friend James Norman Burmeister was renting a room. There they found a Nazi flag, bombmaking books and white-supremacist literature, including a thick volume on the Third Reich on Burmeister's nightstand. They also found something else: a 9-mm pistol that they believed was used to kill Jackie Burden, 27, and her friend Michael James...
...history repeats itself, the flag-amendment issue will have little resonance in the minds of voters come November. After the amendment's last run through Congress in May 1990, only five months before the election, Democrats gained seats in both houses, and not one Democrat lost a Senate seat While the electorate has come down repeatedly and overwhelmingly on the wrong side of the issue, at least it has had the sense not to vote for candidates on the basis of their support for the flag-burning amendment alone...