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has gloss | eng: Camp Bulkeley was a detention center located within the United States military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where HIV-positive refugees and asylum seekers were held during the early 1990s. After two years of protest, including a mention by presenters Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins during the 1993 Academy Awards, the camp was declared unconstitutional by United States district court Judge Sterling Johnson Jr.. In a negotiated agreement with attorneys for the detainees, that decision was vacated and the camp was closed shortly thereafter. |
lexicalization | eng: Camp Bulkeley |
instance of | (noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement" conflict, fight, battle, engagement |
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