Word: hands
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...student also noted that, based on first-hand accounts, many people in Iran also do not know what will emerge from the unrest. Unlike the Islamic Revolution 30 years ago when Iranians were eager to depose the Shah, this time around many protesters do not have a concrete goal, says the student...
...tensions with Congress, the quarrels with other NSC members. As low as his popularity was when he left office - Gallup/Harris polls showed him at 34% - Rumsfeld still found that when he dined out at a restaurant or walked along a street, people approached him eager to shake his hand...
...Most famous was the demise of the Eastern Bloc and then the Soviet Union itself, which came on the heels of years of sustained U.S.-led international pressure. Another example is South Korea, where energetic bipartisan U.S. pressure peaked in 1987 when U.S. ambassador Jim Lilley hand delivered a letter from President Reagan urging against a crackdown on protesters. The advice was heeded. Two weeks later the protesters' demands were met, and Korean democracy was born...
...person has been charged with the murders at Massereene barracks. Just over a month after Breen's article describing the call she received from the Real IRA appeared in the Dublin-based Sunday Tribune, of which she is Northern Editor, Breen received a letter from the PSNI, requesting she hand over notes, photographs, her cell phone and other records relating to the attack, in order to advance their investigation. Breen refused to co-operate, citing her right not to disclose her sources. Furthermore, she said she would face "a real and immediate threat to her life" from the Real...
...informer) who had been accused of the murder of a Catholic solicitor. The paramilitary-turned-informer told Moloney that he had in fact alerted police officers to the murder plot, but that they had failed to act to prevent it. Moloney refused to comply with a police request to hand over his notes. The case against him was eventually dropped...