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...original name for Prop. 209 was the California Civil Rights Initiative--a moniker that expresses Custred and Wood's central strategic insight, which was to present the initiative as a direct descendent of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The wording of the proposition is adapted from the 1964 Civil Rights Act. None of the advocates of the proposition who appears regularly before the public is a white male. Its advertising slogan is "Bring us together." The idea the pro-proposition forces are selling is that affirmative action has introduced obsessive color consciousness into what otherwise would...
Singing "Blowin' in the Wind," a ballad they first performed three decades ago during the politically tumultuous 1960s, Peter, Paul and Mary urged the audience to reelect the incumbents...
...poetry in 20th-century America. The poetry reading itself has a venerable tradition--in the Woodberry Poetry Room, one can listen to a virtual roll-call of American poets reading at Harvard, from T.S. Eliot '10 to Robert Lowell and beyond. But, at some point, perhaps in the 1960s, the act of reading one's poems aloud to an audience--one of the main ways poetry is consumed today, and a source of income for virtually every poet--clearly started to affect the way poems themselves are written...
...shot in the back by an unknown gunman. Testifying Thursday in an attempt to mitigate his sentence on murder and robberies, Eugene De Kock said former South African spy Craig Williamson had led an operation to assassinate Palme. The murdered Swede had supported the African National Congress throughout the 1960s and 1970s and was one of the foremost supporters of the anti-apartheid sanctions campaign. Swedish authorities say they had privately suspected South African involvement in Palme's death since 1987, but refused to comment further. Until his arrest, De Kock, who describes himself as South Africa's foremost assassin...
DIED. JOANNE DRU, 74, actress; of respiratory illness; in Beverly Hills, California. Dru starred in the classic westerns Red River, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Wagon Master; in the early 1960s she played a New Yorker running a New Mexico dude ranch in the short-lived TV series Guestward...