Word: nationals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...satisfied with your first 100 days, Mr. President? Should the nation...
Your goals, Mr. President, have either been vague--a "kinder, gentler nation"--or hypocritical. You declared your concern for education and for the environment, but your budget proposal allots just I percent of the budget for education, the environment, drug abuse programs and relief for the homeless...
...movement as "the father of rescue": "I think there will be tremendous numbers who will risk jail in the coming year." He even argues, "This civil rights movement is larger, in terms of sheer numbers of supporters and of those who have gone to jail all over the nation, than the civil rights movement of the '60s. We're now ready to fill the jails...
...thorniest extradition disputes involve international terrorism. The "political-offense exemption," a centuries-old human-rights provision of international law, excludes political agitators and dissidents from extradition. This standard, though, can be twisted, and suspects considered terrorists by one nation may be freedom fighters to another. Complicating matters further are the threats and bribes that sometimes engulf the cases...
...furor reached a peak on Saturday. As many as 150,000 students and other activists massed in Tiananmen for one of China's biggest demonstrations since the Communist revolution in 1949. As the nation's top leaders filed into the Great Hall for Hu's memorial service behind a wall of 8,000 Chinese troops, the protesters waved their fists and chanted, "Long live freedom!" and "Down with dictatorship!" Some of the leaders seemed to stop momentarily to listen to the shouts. In Xian, to the northwest, the demonstrations turned into a riot as students burned 20 houses and injured...