Word: supporter
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...government would do well in Central America to follow Gorbachev's example in Eastern Europe: withdraw support from unsuccessful, unpopular and brutal governments. While it is probably too late to win the hearts of the rebels, it is in our interest to come down on the side of human rights in our hemisphere by withdrawing military aid from El Salvador. In doing so, we might gain the praise of Costa Rica and set an example for Guatemala and Honduras...
Even the armed forces and riot police, who just nine days ago beat peaceful protesters, indicated backing for the growing reform movement. "We support the democratic changes," a riot police officer told the crowd, which braved freezing weather and snow...
...Soviet Union signaled support for thedevelopments in Czechoslovakia yesterday with anarticle by Gorbachev in the Communist Party dailyPravda that praised Dubcek's catchphrase"socialism with a human face...
...John E. Frohnmayer, the new chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, learned something last week about the art of compromise. Earlier, Frohnmayer had announced that he was withdrawing a $10,000 grant to support "Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing," a planned New York City exhibition of artworks inspired by the AIDS crisis. The show was "political rather than artistic in nature," Frohnmayer said. He cited a catalog essay that denounced North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms and California Congressman William Dannemeyer, both vocal opponents of gay rights, and New York's John Cardinal O'Connor...
...think that the numbers speak for themselves. The support money from Cambridge will decline over time," hospital administrator John O'Brien told the council...