Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Their professionalism has come at a terrible price. The soldiers' cemetery begun in the village of Rahic a year ago contains 370 graves today. Grief is constant: for every funeral, the whole village turns out. Even so, Muslim soldiers do not call for military intervention from abroad. Just lift the international embargo on arms shipments to Bosnia, they say, and they will handle this war. Meanwhile they have dug themselves deep into their native soil and are beating back Serb attacks with little more than the firepower of rifles and grenades...
...time of the 'lift the ban' rally there were enough gay and lesbian faculty that were out that having one more person come out wasn't so much of a phenomena," says Allen...
...this matter, Powell was caught between the military, which strongly resisted the removal of the ban, and the president, and commander-in-chief, who strongly opposed the ban and had made a campaign promise to lift...
...first, Powell made it known in public and in front of Congress that he disagreed with Clinton's campaign promise to lift the ban. But then, he went no further...
...Rudenstine moved forward with the report's recommendations, even as the Faculty held no vote on the issue, the national scene became increasingly complex. Clinton's intentions to lift the ban on gays in the military met opposition from top military officials and powerful senators...