Word: movements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Politics is not an intellectual pursuit for her; her political education was her own experience as a black woman. She never marched in the civil rights movement; her parents were her political models. "I can't separate myself from the fact that I grew up as a black child. My parents were quietly defiant of racism. I was born and raised in the North, but my roots are solidly in the South. In the summers we drove south to Canton, Miss., where my mother was from. My father would always ask, whenever we stopped for gas, if they had toilets...
...Base. Accompanied by two armored personnel carriers, the soldiers were armed with automatic rifles and supplied with mortars. On their left sleeves they bore a strange white patch with the letters RAM-SFP. The first three initials identified the men as members of the Reform the Armed Forces Movement, an organization of Young Turks that was thought to have been disbanded after its leader, the renegade former Lieut. Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan, 41, staged the coup that nearly toppled President Corazon Aquino more than two years ago. The second set of letters stood simply for Soldiers of the Filipino People...
INTERVIEW: In a startling turnabout, East Germany's Communist Party leader, Egon Krenz, declares that "freedom of movement is a basic human right...
...Malta ramps. From there the machines whirled him 50 miles to the aircraft carrier Forrestal, then settled him back feather-like on the fantail of the Belknap. Rubber-suited Marine divers bounced in dinghies along the tops of the rising waves, patrolling for any suspicious movement in adjacent waters. A shabby little barge, old tires festooning its scuffed sides, turned out to be in the employ of the Navy, the keeper of the communication cable to the Belknap. That allowed Bush to monitor events in the Philippines, where U.S. force once again had to be committed to help stabilize...
...carefully sheathed passion and cool rationalism make her Planned Parenthood's most persuasive leader and the pro-choice movement's most effective weapon...