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Shabazz said that society had labeled her father a "revolutionary," a word which carried a highly negative connotation in the 1960s, to portray him in an unfavorable light...
...from $20 billion in 1985 to $75 billion in 1988. At the same time, creditors lengthened maturities. The average auto loan is now payable over 48 months, up from 36 in 1982. Says James Grant, editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer: "The 1980s were to debt what the 1960s were...
...Clearly," says U.S. Ambassador William Swing, who was a junior diplomat in South Africa in the mid-1960s, "there has not been a time in my association with this country that the prospects for a settlement along just lines have been as favorable." Yet Pretoria is notorious for its habit of taking two steps backward for every step forward. De Klerk is urging against unrealistic hopes. But if he fails to fulfill at least some of the expectations, he will risk a powerful backlash that could wreck any prospect for progress in the near future...
...capture the face of a man who has not been seen in public for the past 27 years? Ask artist Paul Davis, who painted this week's cover of Nelson Mandela. No new pictures of the African National Congress leader have been available since the early 1960s. Relatively few people know what he looks like today...
...daring of his "I am a liberal" acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. Dukakis certainly tried to differentiate his party from the Republicans, but to much of the electorate the difference appeared to consist of the harmful permissiveness and doctrinaire recklessness which have been Democratic millstones since the 1960s...