Her father was Aung San, the rough-tongued, charismatic leader of the Burmese effort for independence from their imperial overlords.
I would only take exception with her comment that "despite the renewed efforts of Basque extremists for independence, we almost did not feel their presence, other than in the papers we read and in the conversations we had with friends".
In the late 1950's he expressed his fierce opposition to French efforts to smother Algeria's fight for independence in an essay called "The Algerian War".
The Sixth District, or Sixth Ward as it was commonly called, was mostly Irish-American, and Greeley proclaimed his support for Irish efforts towards independence from Great Britain.
The logic was perverse; much of that debt had been run up by the colonial authorities in their effort to crush the Cuban struggle for independence.
In the meantime, Cornyn voted against tax incentives for renewable energy investment, leaving Texans high and dry at the pump and undermining efforts for America to achieve energy independence.
Mr. Burns will visit Israel and the Palestinian territories next week in an effort to encourage efforts to end violence that has raged since Palestinians began an uprising for independence two years ago.
At the time, Mr. de Wever said that it was too soon for independence for Flanders — a status he favors — but since then all efforts to form a coalition have foundered.
He emigrated to Palestine before the Israeli war of independence and led recruiting efforts for the Zionist Revisionist movement.
UN efforts to gain independence for Namibia from South Africa, carried out from the 1940s to the '80s, represent perhaps the most enduring and concerted attempt by the organization to promote freedom for a former colony.
