Word: wings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SALVADOR. A two-year-old peace is threatened by a new outbreak of killings attributed to right-wing death squads; about two dozen leftists have been murdered since the war ended...
There he audited a chemistry course taught by John Edsall, an expert in proteins. Edsall soon took Anderson under his wing, as author Larry Thompson recounts in Correcting the Code, a forthcoming book about the pioneers of gene therapy. At one of Edsall's seminars, Anderson became intrigued by a visiting British scientist's talk about the hemoglobin molecule, which transports oxygen in the bloodstream. A thought occurred to Anderson, and he blurted it out. "If you could determine its structure," he reasoned out loud, "then you could do the same with sickle hemoglobin and determine what the defect...
...Palestinian state. Negotiators recognize that some form of shared responsibility for security on the borders will have to be reached to preserve Arafat's credibility as leader of the P.L.O. While Rabin's government has thus far fended off no-confidence motions in the Knesset sponsored by the right-wing opposition, Arafat has been shaken by a recent spate of resignations from his own Fatah movement. According to Ghassan Khatib, a West Bank-based official with the People's Party, a constituent party of the P.L.O., the continuing delay in implementing the agreement has only further weakened Palestinian confidence...
Just two weeks after his spectacular transformation from obscure buffoon to Russia's most notorious politician, Vladimir Zhirinovsky decided to take a little vacation. His idea of a good time: a riotous road trip through Central Europe, hobnobbing with a German right-wing firebrand, skiing in the company of an Austrian Waffen-SS veteran and, in virtually every place on his itinerary, behaving in ways that tend to get ordinary people thrown out of bars. But in Zhirinovsky's case, he was given the bum's rush from entire countries. Back in Russia at week's end, the nationalist demagogue...
Jean-Marie Le Pen's right-wing National Front wins 12.5% of the vote in parliamentary elections with anti-immigrant rhetoric...