Word: zia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after faltering at the beginning Co-Captain Daphne Onder-donk overpowered Dartmouth Co-Captain Zia Daniell, coasting to a 15-7, 15-13, 15-1 victory...
...Iraqi] problem." There is a wide range of political beliefs within the anti-war movement, so no one agenda will be acceptable to all. In our opinion, the U.S. government is the most powerful force stifling democracy and upholding the dictators and autocrats of the region (i.e., the Shah, Zia Ul-Haq, King Fahd, Hafez Assad and before August, Saddam Hussein himself...
...people of the region can no more be served by the U.S. and its allies, which have sponsored such butchers as Syria's Assad, Pakistan's Zia and the Shah of Iran, than by Saddam Hussein, himself a product of Western interference...
...stick failed to save him this time. Doctors, lawyers, civil servants and merchant seamen refused to work. Journalists and television actors walked off their jobs. Shops remained shuttered, and curfew-defying protesters took to the streets. Said opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia: "The autocratic Ershad had to surrender to the people's will...
...Dhaka, the capital, and were sporadically dispersed by soldiers wielding batons and tear-gas canisters even as they fortified themselves with makeshift barricades. The government ordered the arrest of the two women who head the main opposition groups -- Sheik Hasina Wazed of the Awami League and Begum Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party -- but the two remained undaunted. As it happens, Hasina is the daughter of a slain former President, and Zia is the widow of another. Vowed Hasina: "Ershad's last days have arrived. We shall not leave the streets until the dictator is removed...