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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite a vow from the State Department to intensify its efforts to verify the refugees' claims, they have not halted the repatriation program. U.S. Coast Guard cutters carry hundreds of Haitians back to their homeland every week...

Author: By Barrett C. Hester, | Title: Politics Beats Saving Lives | 3/4/1992 | See Source »

Angry Shiites Vow to Avenge Assassination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWS BRIEFS | 2/18/1992 | See Source »

...sodium and fat free. I don't care if the rest of the world enjoys the candy for pure taste. I've tried to make this thing work, and it hasn't. I am afraid of them, I'm sick of them, and from this day forward, I vow to abstain from all romantic exchange stamped on sugar...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Cryptic Love Candies | 2/14/1992 | See Source »

...over New Hampshire voters, of course, with his now (in)famous "no new taxes" pledge. Bush's popular vow proved too much for Sen. Robert Dole, who waffled on the same issue, and soon threw in the towel and headed back to Kansas. Nevertheless, Bush later abandoned his most sacred political pledge, a promise whose appeal had rescued him from the snowdrifts of New Hampshire...

Author: By Harry JAMES Wilson, | Title: Losing His Religion | 2/8/1992 | See Source »

Still, perhaps it is unrealistic to expect active student involvement in the 1992 presidential campaign. For some, the ease with which a spring semester vow can be broken is too tempting to be passed up. But, with nations across the globe waging battle for the right to representative government, it is nothing less than criminal to neglect your ability to help choose the next leader of this country...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: What Are You Waiting For? | 2/1/1992 | See Source »

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