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...provide another excuse for confrontation," the group's statement read. The announcement was warmly greeted by the Catholic residents of Lower Ormeau Road. At the same time, British Prime Minister John Major, campaigning for re-election at a high school near London, said he believed the nationalist Irish Republican Army was preparing to resume the cease-fire it abandoned a year ago. However, Major predicted the IRA announcement would come after the May 1 national British elections, which Major so far looks likely to lose. It will probably fall to a Labor government to continue the all-party peace talks...
...economic task for this year" and made a goal of GNP growth of not less than 2 percent. As if that portion of the speech were for t he Russia people, and perhaps for the anxious West and the IMF, Yeltsin then seemed to turn his attentions to nationalist hawks assembled before him. He reiterated Russia's opposition to the eastward expansion of NATO, which he said was an attempt to "take Russia out of Europe, isolate Russia, for which European nations will pay very dearly." The counter-offensive: to strengthen ties with CIS neighbors such as Ukraine and Kazakhstan...
...suppress the protests, the Nationalist Government leader, Chiang Kai-shek, imposed martial law on the island and sent troops from mainland China. As the troops moved from north to south on the island, they killed roughly 20,000 people indiscriminately...
...early 1980s, when he snapped up cigarette manufacturer Cigatam, as well as Sanborns, the cafe and convenience-store chain, and Frisco, a mining company. Through Grupo Carso, Slim now controls 30 companies worth more than $7.2 billion. Critics aside, he is considered to be a passionate Mexican nationalist--and a fierce competitor. Yanquis, take note...
Their fortunes changed after October 1934. Harassed by superior Nationalist forces, the Red Army of Jiangxi joined the arduous Long March, threading in roundabout ways through the hinterland until it straggled to the caves of Yan'an in northwestern Shaanxi province a year and 7,500 miles later. The retreat cost the lives of more than 90,000 troops, but sheer survival, along with the self-sacrifice the soldiers displayed toward civilians en route, made heroes of the communists. Mao's guerrilla strategy had by then made him the movement's unchallenged leader...