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Scattered protesters around the yard called out "Lift the Ban" while Powell was speaking. But for the most part, protest was visual rat her than vocal...
...people stood up and turned their backs while Powell was speaking in the afternoon. Some graduating students held up mortarboards with "Lift the Ban" stickers on them, distributed by the Commencement Pride Coalition, a group of students, faculty and alumni who planned Commencement Day protest activities...
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...
...decisions with that minority. They said they would never talk with the A.N.C., and they fought almost every election on that basis. We have made them sit down and talk to us. We are now together planning the future South Africa. They have had to unban the A.N.C., to lift the state of emergency, to allow a climate of free political activity, which they had not allowed for more than 40 years. They have released political prisoners, allowed political exiles to return to the country, amended and even repealed repressive legislation, and agreed on the installation of a transitional executive...
...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...