Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There were scattered protests in the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River and many merchants closed their shops in both areas. Palestinian nationalist groups ordered another general strike in the occupied territories for three days starting Monday and said it would be enforced by patrols...
...Putu, Siku and Kanik would ever reach their wintering grounds off the coasts of California and Mexico. Meanwhile, conservationists and whale lovers might reflect on this conundrum: How can the human outpouring of concern for three whales, however sentimental or misplaced, be translated into real protection for whales in general...
Within a week, outrage over that Sept. 11 attack at St. John Bosco Church in the capital of Port-au-Prince provoked an army revolt that installed the new regime of Lieut. General Prosper Avril. The atrocity added considerably to the mystique surrounding the slight, bespectacled 35-year-old Roman Catholic priest, a socialist who is widely called a "prophet." Formerly a little- known worker among the dispossessed of his parish, Aristide is the only authentic leader who has emerged from the Haitian masses during the chaotic period since the despised dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier was overthrown...
Soft money cannot legally be spent to promote a candidate directly -- to put an "Elect Bush" ad on TV, for example. But the funds can be used for more general purposes such as conducting polls, organizing voter-registration drives or buying "Vote Republican" ads. The Democrats plan to use some of the $7 million of soft money they have raised in California, for instance, to deploy nearly 75,000 precinct workers to greet voters at the polls on Election Day. In the past, candidates had to dip into their own campaign funds to pay for polls...
Critics charged that the moves threatened the rights of all British citizens. "Violence cannot be defeated by injustice," warned Sarah Spencer, general secretary of the National Council for Civil Liberties. The government responded that terrorists have been thwarting justice by "the gross, determined and persistent abuse" of the right to silence...