Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Populism is the last refuge of a declining Democrat. As poll numbers decrease, populist rhetoric increases. After months of touting such eye- glazing proposals as the Pan American summit on drug trafficking, Michael Dukakis has finally, and reluctantly, decided to tap into the roiling pool of American class resentment. Presto...
Cold morning temperatures forced the Leverett House resident tutor to take refuge in a post office along the way. "My feet were like wooden boards, and I thought frostbite might set in," he said.
As the mutiny spread and crowds plundered his house last week, Romain sought refuge inside the embassy of the Dominican Republic. Others were not so lucky. Some Macoutes were stoned to death. Several who participated in the murder last year of former presidential candidate Yves Volel were seized by an...
At first one is astonished and dismayed by his disregard for the convention of chronological recall. For Bergman's films, no matter how deeply they plunge into the dank depths of his characters, have always been severely, intricately logical in structure and cool, almost objective, in tone. But one comes...
Just miles from the airport, an embarrassing standoff was unfolding between the government and three antiapartheid leaders who escaped from custody earlier in the week. The three, who were being held without trial under South Africa's 27-month-old state-of-emergency laws, slipped away from guards while receiving...