Word: leader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Frank affair lies in the nature of his mistakes. House Minority Leader Robert Michel (R-III.) argued that because a heterosexual would be kicked out for hiring a prostitute, then Frank should be as well. Michel called Frank a "stain" on the House and said that applying a different standard to Frank would be giving preferential treatment to gays...
...take time to recognize that the president will be the true leader of the campus," he said...
WASHINGTON--The House Republican leader said yesterday that the Barney Frank case was becoming "a stain upon the House of Representatives," as allies of the embattled Democrat tried to quell suggestions he was near resignation...
...claim to the land. On the other are hundreds of fledgling conservation groups, along with the Indian tribes and rubber tappers whose way of life will be destroyed if the forests disappear. The clash has already produced the world's most celebrated environmental martyr, Chico Mendes, a leader of the rubber tappers who was murdered for trying to stand in the way of ranchers...
This courageous leader did not set out to save the Amazon but to improve the lot of rubber tappers, or seringueiros. He and his men would try to dissuade peasants from clearing land. The ranchers were eager to get rid of him, but he survived one assassination attempt after another. The conflict finally came to a head last year, when Mendes confronted a rancher named Darli Alves da Silva, who wanted to cross land claimed by rubber tappers to cut an adjacent 300-acre plot. After Mendes and a group of 200 seringueiros peacefully turned back the rancher...