Word: alabama
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FOOTNOTE: *Bishop John T. Walker of Washington, D.C., the runner-up, was the first black ever nominated for the post. The other candidates: Colorado's William Frey and Alabama's Furman Stough...
...damaged, along with at least 3,790 dwellings, leaving hundreds of people homeless and causing insured private-property losses of more than $350 million in Mississippi alone. During its wild meanderings, Hurricane Elena left behind an additional $13.8 million of insured private-property damages in Louisiana, $100.3 million in Alabama and $46.8 million in Florida...
Meese further outraged the civil rights establishment with indictments in Alabama against eight political activists for voter fraud in primary elections last fall, charging that the accused used the names of incapacitated and illiterate nursing- home patients on absentee ballots. Although three of the defendants have already been acquitted, the black mayor of Union, Ala., went on trial last week in Birmingham. The anger in Alabama's black belt is palpable. Randall Williams, a director of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, contends that whites who commit voter fraud go unprosecuted. Says he: "This is clearly a one-sided...
...1970s," says Calvin Beale, chief of population research at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, "every Sunbelt state had a rate of population growth that was higher than the U.S. as a whole." Some of the Sunbelt, however, is now in the shade; in the 1980s, population growth in Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky has been lower than in the U.S. as a whole...
...school decisions came just one week after the high court struck down by an 8-to-1 vote a Connecticut law that gave workers an absolute right to take their Sabbath day off, and four weeks after the court voted 6 to 3 to invalidate an Alabama law that allowed a moment of silence for prayer in the public schools. The Reagan Administration was on the losing side of all three disputes. Denouncing the court's "fastidious disdain for religion," Secretary of Education William Bennett complained that the latest rulings will make it "vastly more difficult to provide education service...