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...supporters have sought refuge in Costa Rica, where many of them have sold their $1,000 automatic weapons for as little as $100. "In the best month, we got $600,000 from the gringos," recalls a Pastora aide. "Now, we get nothing. If one of us manages to scrape together $5,000, we buy rice and maybe 20,000 rounds of ammunition." Last month Pastora sought temporary asylum for himself and 700 of his followers in Costa Rica, but the authorities refused...
...Lankford have maintained that the union should not only recoup concessions made in its 1982 contract with GM at the depth of the auto industry's troubles but also win additional benefits. That year, U.A.W. leaders predicted the contract with GM would pass comfortably, only to see it scrape...
...This contract was really stark. The images portrayed of Republican and of our ACORN members curry over to real lives. The Republicans live high off the hog and we have to grovel in the dirt and scrape by ACORN people are the spirit of America--we are the wind blowing through the flaps of the flags and tents...
...going to find two more liberal pols than John Kerry and Jim Shannon, even in the People's Republic of Massachusetts, and the temptation is to assume they are identical. Resist it. Scrape away the often stale liberal rhetoric and the image mongering, and you will find that Jim Shannon deserves and is more qualified to replace Paul E. Tsongas as this state's junior senator...
...going to find two more liberal pols than John Kerry and Jim Shannon, even in the People's Republic of Massachusetts, and the temptation is to assume they are identical. Resist it. Scrape away the often stale liberal rhetoric and the image mongering, and you will find that Jim Shannon deserves and is more qualified to replace Paul E. Tsongas as this state's junior senator...