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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campaign" that has occupied him all his adult life? Or will he be tempted by a nearby electorate that is likely to give him the affection he craves? Could it be that, 30 years after less nimble members of his generation had to make the journey, Bill Clinton will flee to Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DON'T COUNT THAT VOTE! | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

Emma doesn't stop, recounting her life before, during and after the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines. War can often make for powerful literature, and indeed, the descriptions of the invasions are intense. Emma's family must flee to the hills and face bombing, even in what they thought was a safe haven. Innocent lives are lost, and promises of help from the U.S. are made and then delayed for three grueling years. The effect of the occupation on Manila and on the cultural identity of the Philippines should not be underemphasized...

Author: By Sarah D. Kalloch, | Title: Too Many Pinholes Let in Too Much Light | 10/17/1996 | See Source »

Beth Roland, a domestic violence advocate and attorney at the Boston Law Firm of Mintz Levin, highlighted two parts of the crime bill advocated by Clinton that aided women--a provision to aid arrest and conviction of criminals who flee across country boundaries, and federal, as opposed to state, restraining orders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Steinem Criticizes GOP Hopefuls | 10/12/1996 | See Source »

...proposed design features a life-size sculpture of a couple as they flee Ireland to escape the famine. As Flaherty told the commission, the statue shows a mother, too weak to go on, sitting on the ground, holding her dying child and bidding goodbye to her husband and other child...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Endorses Plan for Irish Famine Memorial | 10/4/1996 | See Source »

...free. Though he had enemies on all sides, he regularly traveled without escort in a country where the two tribes are hell-bent on destroying each other, where more than 150,000 people have been killed since 1993, where in July the last elected President had to flee for his life into the U.S. embassy, where he remains to this day. The Roman Catholic cleric would give no quarter to the murderers, either to the Hutu, who make up the majority of the country, or to his fellow Tutsi, who control the military. At a memorial for massacre victims last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OF DEATH AND DEFIANCE | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

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