Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expect a massive wave of disease to descend on hospitals, health care services, and society. What I forsee happening is an increasing sense of panic in the general population," Haseltine said...
...have lost their federal benefits, including unemployment compensation. Outside their tightly knit communities, they have been shunned for their disputed link to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and often misunderstood for the practice of voodoo that many of them brought along from the old country. Even so, the immigration wave has continued. Indeed, the latest group arrived off the coast of Florida last Friday, just hours before Duvalier fled Haiti...
Duvalier's secret departure set off a wave of explosive emotion when it was announced on nationwide radio and television less than four hours later. In a self-serving recorded message, he told his countrymen, "I wish to go down in history with my head held high and with a clean conscience. Therefore, I have decided to trust the destiny of the nation to the power of the armed forces of Haiti. I pray God protects this nation." To many of Haiti's 6 million mostly impoverished people, Duvalier's departure was the answer to their prayers...
...rebellion among young Haitians who saw little chance for improvement in their lives under Duvalier. The opposition movement was supported by the Roman Catholic Church, which since the 1983 visit of Pope John Paul II had protested Duvalier's indifference to the country's squalor. Last month a new wave of protests swept the country. Although Duvalier's troops and police maintained control of Port- au-Prince, much of the rest of the country was in open revolt...
...have succeeded," he said. "But they also hope to intimidate the government, and there they will not succeed." Even as Joxe spoke, Paris was a city nearly under siege. A small army of police guarded transportation outlets and other key points. The tightened security was in response to a wave of bombings that had given the French capital a bad case of the jitters. A total of 21 people were injured, eight seriously, in three explosions that rocked crowded Paris stores. A fourth bomb, planted in the Eiffel Tower, was disarmed before it exploded...