Word: sen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sen. Michael J. Barrett '70 (D-Cambridge) had asked the Senate to force the committee to discharge the bill, a move that would have required a simple majority vote to prevail...
Because of Leland's universally admired humanitarian work, accolades for him have cut across ideological barriers. President Bush said Leland was "engaged in a noble cause--trying to feed the hungry." Sen. Ted Kennedy said, "Mickey Leland died as he lived, on a mission of mercy and hope for victims of poverty, injustice, racism and hunger. Wherever suffering people existed on our planet, Mickey Leland wanted to be there to help. He represented not only the people of Houston, but the best in America and all humanity...
Solidarity Sen. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Walesa's envoy to coalition talks, said the independent trade union movement would not abandon its efforts to form a government. Kaczynski said Kiszczak was trying to "make it...very difficult, if not impossible" for Solidarity to form the government, but that he did not think that the proposal of Malinowski for prime minister would succeed...
...Sen, the Prime Minister of the Vietnamese-sponsored regime, is ready to share power with Sihanouk but not with the Khmer Rouge -- and for good reason: whether or not they are allowed into a coalition, they will certainly try to keep their camps and arms caches. Some level of fighting would go on. It is a question of whether the Khmer Rouge are granted government portfolios and political legitimacy along with their military strength. Attending the Paris conference last week, Secretary of State James Baker said, "The United States strongly believes that the Khmer Rouge should play no role...
Baker implied that Hun Sen and his Vietnamese mentors are no better than the Khmer Rouge. The Secretary of State warned that the Cambodian people may "be forced to choose between being eaten by a tiger or devoured by a crocodile." But this parallel does not stand up. Hun Sen has been rebuilding the country that the Khmer Rouge destroyed. If it ever comes to a hard choice between him and the Khmer Rouge, as indeed it might, the Cambodian people would without doubt choose Hun Sen. So should...