Word: accessability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...senior took the final steps to end sexism in the final clubs, filing a descrimination complaint with the state against the Fly Club. Fellow students supported her cause, creating Stop Withholding Access Today (SWAT) to help fund and carry on the suit after she graduated...
...turned up no conclusive evidence that rules were broken by his quick admission to the National Guard. The managing editor of his grandfather's newspaper, Wendell Phillippi, had indeed called an old acquaintance, the Guard planning officer, on Quayle's behalf. This old-brass network clearly expedited Quayle's access to a relatively safe haven, but such transactions were common throughout the country during the Viet Nam War. Thousands of other Americans, including Senators Bill Bradley of New Jersey and Don Nickles of Oklahoma, sat out the war in the National Guard or military reserves (though they were not, like...
...park police estimated Saturday's crowd at 55,000, far fewer than the 250,000 who heard King or attended the 20th-anniversary celebration in 1983. While the original march concerned the basic right to public access and the vote, the current agenda is more complicated. The rally listed more than a dozen legislative goals, including D.C. statehood, the ERA and comprehensive sanctions against South Africa...
...Soviets hope to prop up Najibullah long enough to allow a transition to a more broadly based regime friendly to the Soviet Union. Whatever the stripes of the new regime, Moscow aims to have it seeded with friends open to continued Soviet access to gas fields and copper and oil deposits that it has developed in the north. Says Ambassador Yegorychev: "There is no doubt that we have our national interests here. Our main interest is that Afghanistan be a good neighbor of the Soviet Union...
...last June Martin published a piece that displeased one very important reader: Richard Rison, the newly appointed warden at Lompoc. Headlined THE GULAG MENTALITY, Martin's article charged that Rison had increased tension at the prison by limiting access to the recreation yard and replacing the inmates' individually decorated and highly prized chairs with plain gray folding chairs. "He's tryin' to start a riot," complained an unidentified convict in Martin's story. "We might just as well give him one and get it over with...