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Marion S. Barry Marion S. Barry
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William Ferguson Massey William Ferguson Massey
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Juanita Kidd Stout Juanita Kidd Stout
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Constantine Karamanlis Constantine Karamanlis
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Fernando Collor de Mello Fernando Collor de Mello
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John Smith John Smith
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Jean-Bertrand Aristide Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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IN BRIEF (Page: 12, Date: 04/16/2003)
Newspaper article from: China Daily ...Poll: More French back Iraq War...hindsightMany French have dropped...similar poll in March. Forty-six...published by French daily Liberation...including murder, cruel treatment and...villages in 1992-93. ...
Russia's new faces: who's in charge?(the uncertainty of Russia's future...
Magazine article from: The New Leader ...Early reports on March 23 of President...Minister of the French-style system...presidential election, due in the...Minister since 1992, survived as...presidential election" was a cruel joke. The President...Yeltsin's 1996 ...
SIZING UP A POWELL, DOLE MATCHUP.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) ...take place in the March 26 California primary...life plank in the 1992 platform was divisive...amoral British and French manipulations. Soon...vivid in the general election. The cocoon of media...Angeles Times, the cruel cartoonist Conrad...
Obituary: Juvenal Habyarimana
Newspaper article from: The Independent (London, England) ...now Rwanda) 8 March 1937; President...1994. THERE IS a cruel symmetry in the fact...guerrilla strikes. In 1992 the country held its first multi-party elections and changes in the...Despite support from French troops, Habyarimana...

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