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The response was an Afghan national resistance movement that defeated Soviet forces.
The Post , however, fronts an article concluding that Clinton's budget victories are a mixed blessing: He had defeated GOP attacks, but launched no initiatives of his own.
But the Austrians defeated a rebel government of “united Italian provinces,” weakened by regional rivalries and conflicting personal ambitions.
Republicans defeated a plan to let patients sue their HMOs but approved more access to emergency care and specialists.
China defeated a U.N. resolution criticizing its human-rights abuses.