Word: valiants
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...rapid deployment force," by permanent power pressure against countries pursuing a policy unpalatable to it. This is a dangerous line. Indeed, is it the Cuban teachers schooling children in Nicaragua who are searching for concessions for Cuba or trying to pocket the wealth of that country? Did the valiant sons of Cuba give military support to independent Ethiopia and Angola at the request of their governments in order to deprive them of their freedom or to interfere in their affairs? No, a thousand times...
...documentary presents their story in a brilliant interplay of present day portraits and past historical scenes. It weaves an emotion filled story of magnanimity which instills admiration for the Brigade's valiant element of humanity. Producer Noel Buckner describes the movie this way. "It is not only about history. It asks how do people make choices and how does it make a difference in their lives...
Electoral reforms from 1970 to 1980 were a valiant attempt to make the system more representative than in the old days, when party acolytes deliberated in smoke-filled rooms--but the last two elections demonstrated that the system was still in need of ample tightening. This year, the party has completely revamped its delegate selection process. And the new system, which will be tested in the coming months, seems finally to be moving in the right direction...
...would come to his rescue. The Soviet Union had already stressed to its Syrian clients the need to "overcome strife and restore unity" within the P.L.O., but the effect on the Syrians had been negligible. By the end of the week, even as Arafat's loyalists made a valiant effort to recapture the Baddawi camp, there were reports that the P.L.O. chairman would be rescued from Tripoli by Italian or French naval vessels...
...propaganda outlet for the government. The government's newly issued primer at first seems to be little more than a Dick-and-Jane clone. But one of the examples of words beginning with the letter d is defense, and it is accompanied by a photograph of soldiers. "Valiant militias march into the plaza," the caption reads. "The militias are from the people. The pueblo is ready for defense." In secondary schools, liberal disciplines in the Nicaraguan social sciences and humanities have been downgraded or replaced by courses on revolutionary history and Marxist economics and sociology. Even a natural science...