Word: wave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wait won't be long. Serbian troops jammed the roads leading out of Kosovo late last week, waving their arms and firing guns out of armored vehicles. While the Russians were first into Pristina, the Serbian departure was quickly followed by the arrival of the British and the French, who came early Saturday to begin the work of establishing a NATO foothold. In the Kosovar village of Urosevac, ethnic Albanians showered NATO forces with flowers. One man said it was the first time in 10 weeks that he had emerged from his basement hiding place. The U.S. has pledged...
...stung by the fact that the U.S. had ignored its opinions in proceeding to attack Yugoslavia, and by the impression that President Clinton hadn?t been adequately prepared for Prime Minister Zhu Rongji?s April visit to Washington. The embassy strike proved to be the last straw, unleashing a wave of sometimes violent anti-U.S. protests in China and bringing the Washington-Beijing relationship grinding to a halt. "Beijing certainly manipulated Chinese public opinion following the bombing, but its objective is a lot more than securing more favorable terms for entry into the World Trade Organization," says Dowell...
...came the rousing finale: his release and hero's return to Moscow in 1986; his relentless prodding of Mikhail Gorbachev to pursue democratization; and his election to the Congress of People's Deputies, the Soviet Union's first democratically chosen body. At the time of his death, a tidal wave of democracy that he had helped create was about to engulf the communist world...
...This is the most significant wave of activism since the 1960s," West said at a May 11 rally. "It shatters the stereotypes that young students are not concerned with what is right and just...
...election of the first female Undergraduate Council president led a wave of campus activism, and the arrival of a new dean of the College inaugurated a changed relationship between students and the adminstration...