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1 The Army admitted responsibility for the deaths in July 1989 of 47 youths who had suffocated after being locked in a railway wagon during a roundup of suspected Uganda People 's Army ( UPA ) rebels around Kumi , some 200 km north-east of Kampala .
2 That provided support for the regulars in a vital role .
3 Having the responsibility vested in them to provide education for the children in their areas , they were faced with two problems : teachers ' action and withdrawal of goodwill and a central Government elected with the mandate to restrict public spending .
4 With this effort to deploy support for the arts in New York has come a proliferation of arts alliances , organizations and advisory committee .
5 All involved in the chain from installation to servicing , fully understand the design and function of plants and over the last decade an increasing awareness of the environment has concentrated concern for the situations in which people live , work and play .
6 He became Minister for the Arts in July 1990 and although he was in this post only a few months , he made a distinct mark .
7 None of this is to deny that the February 1960 agreement was partly a result of Khrushchev 's ‘ allowing Mikoian to make trouble for the Americans in Cuba ’ ( Bonsal : 1971 , p. 156 ) , but it is important to recognise that , whatever political considerations were involved , they were firmly backed up by a favourable set of economic circumstances .
8 Paragraph sixteen explains the revised target of one point one one seven million pounds , which mak , which makes provisioning for the costs in the current year of operating the university company .
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