Word: movement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year, the movement limped along aimlessly after the shanties disappeared over the summer. SASC members could do little more than respond to the various jibes that started to come from the community, the most pointed of which came from the campus's conservative community, which invited racists like South African Vice Consul Duke Kent-Brown to campus...
Spring has surely passed for the divestment movement. The plunder of South Africa goes...
...Congress backed up Zhao's rhetoric with action, proving that the reformers will be taken seriously. The Congress slashed the size of party committees, dumped the ruling gerontocracy, and packed committes with new, educated members, to spearhead progressive movement...
...public corruption during his first term in public office. Then, in an iconoclastic campaign for Governor, he railed against the decadence of "old- time politics and the oldtime politicians." Last week, at 39, he was elected one of the nation's youngest Governors and the leader of an awakening movement to free Mississippi from its long-standing image of lethargy and backwardness...
...Western as Bourguiba, Ben Ali may discover that his promise to restore political freedoms will be difficult to keep. His main challenge will be Islamic fundamentalism, the chief opposition movement in the country. Ben Ali displayed sound judgment when he reportedly intervened to prevent mass executions of the militants convicted in September. "He recognizes the danger of going too far," said one Western diplomat. An acknowledgment of limits will be an asset if Ben Ali is to succeed as the second President of the troubled North African nation...