Word: tien
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outbound plane. The journalists were denied entry under a ban triggered by an article in a Sydney newspaper that charged members of Indonesian President Suharto's family and some of his associates with pocketing billions of dollars through shady business deals. The piece compared Suharto and his wife Madame Tien to Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, dubbing Indonesia's First Lady "Madame Tien Per Cent." That same day New York Times Correspondent Barbara Crossette was expelled, possibly in response to a Times story by Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal classifying Suharto as a "tyrant...
...Jorge Orellana, 8, the son of immigrants from El Salvador, says classmates in a Chicago school taunted him with the words "Mexican kid." He now introduces himself as George. Son Nguyen's 16-year-old brother asks new acquaintances whether they want "my American or Vietnamese name." He is Tien to his family, Tim to others...
Parents may encourage such a switch. Says Vietnamese Refugee Le Giau, a resident of Fountain Valley, Calif.: "They should change their names because it's easier for them when they go to work." His three daughters, Hanh, Tien and Trang, are now known as Hannah, Christina and Jennifer. Food too can be a sensitive issue. "My brother wants to become American all the way," says Imelda Ortiz, 17, who left Mexico for Houston at age one. "He tells my mother to cook American food like meat loaf and potatoes. Instead we cook rice and beans and fajitas (skirt steak...
...taking over the Liberals' helm, Turner defeated Jean Chrétien, the Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources and a populist who is well regarded in English-speaking Canada as well as his native Quebec. In many respects Chrétien is a more engaging politician than Turner, who is sometimes described as cold and aloof. Turner benefited from the Liberals' longstanding tradition that the party's leadership should alternate between representatives of English-and French-speaking regions. Since Trudeau is from Quebec, the convention would have had to break with custom to choose Chrétien...
...Down with misery and hunger!" the crowd shouted as it stormed through the northern coastal city of Cap-Haïtien last week, demanding an end to police brutality and clamoring for more food. Hundreds of people blocked the town's entrance with boulders and then marched on the police and army headquarters. Government forces responded by firing into the crowd. The toll: three dead and more than a dozen wounded. It was only the latest clash in the most serious outbreak of social unrest in 27 years...