Word: tides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TEHRAN, Iran--In an apparent move to curb strikes and stem the tide of anti-government riots, Justice Minister Hussein Najafi announced Wednesday that all political prisoners in Iran will be freed December...
Remember when they hated rock'n'roll? The cameras couldn't see Elvis from the waist down, and parents stood guard in the doorway of their children's vicarious ecstasy. Time has seen rock'n'roll co-opted, legitimized by anal retentive businessmen who learned how to turn the tide of rebellion into a tide of profits--to conceptualize, to market, to package, to target, to sell...
...thinking back to when he left Washington. "Another four years and we could have proved everything worked. I think we were right on the crest of this [new national conservative] movement. That convinces me, among other things, that in another four years we would have been moving with the tide...
Whatever the exact numbers, there is little doubt that the tide of undocumented Hispanic aliens has reached flood stage. Many thousands have come from Central and South American countries like Guatemala, Colombia and Ecuador, but about 90% are Mexican. On foot, by air or in autos, they filter across the 2,000-mile-long southern U.S. border. Last year nearly 1 million illegal entrants were apprehended and deported by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. But, admits Los Angeles Police Officer Antonio Amador, "the only way we're going to stop them is to build a Berlin Wall...
...countercurrent of refugees is a mere trickle compared with the tide of 350,000 that swept into Portugal shortly before Angola became independent in 1975. Nonetheless, the reverse exodus is a sign that life in Angola is returning to some form of normality. According to reports from returnees who have resettled in various parts of the country, Angolan President Agostinho Neto's Cuban-backed government has finally prevailed over two rival revolutionary groups: Hoiden Roberto's National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.) and Jonas Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA...