Word: lande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Soldiers have been given small plots of land to produce much of the meat and vegetables on sale at the farmer markets. The Youth Labor Army, a paramilitary force of conscripts, devotes most of its time to farming. Since civilians were pilfering up to 75% of food shipments, soldiers now guard deliveries. The army's construction company, Union de Empresas Constructoras, is building tourist facilities in Varadero and Havana...
...energetically championed: national self- determination. Today it is militantly invoked in many places, from the former Yugoslavia to the former Soviet republics, including North Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh. (You don't know where those new states are? Well, very few people do.) Rival claims to the same land have led to bloody battles, and the U.S. is apt to be involved. Your present successor in the White House has pledged 25,000 troops to help keep the peace in Bosnia. When you proclaimed the right to self-determination, it sounded noble and progressive, although not everyone cheered. Your own Secretary...
...This Land Is Our Land...
President Clinton signed into law this week the California Desert Protection Act, designating 7.7 million acres of federal land in California as wilderness, of which 3 million acres now become national parks. The law expands the boundaries of the Joshua Tree and Death Valley National Monuments and includes them, along with the Mojave National Preserve, in the National Park system...
...world is all a Shakespearean masquerade. Throughout the movie, this narrator-chorus will abruptly return to remind us that this is not reality. The abruptness is also a reflection of the emotional suddenness we see both Henry and in the motley characters--thieves, villains and princesses--which populate his land...