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Participants in the project include Rosa Parks, whose refusal to obey the Jim Crow laws sparked the 1955 Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Ala. Muriel S. Snowden, co-founder and director of Freedom House, a human rights advocacy institution in Roxbury, also took part in the program...
...answers could eventually play a role in formulating the nation's defense strategy. Already one U.S. Government defense study, prepared by the Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research and Education in Montgomery, Ala., has based its policy analyses on the assumption that the nuclear-winter theory is correct. Says Theodore Postol, a strategic-arms consultant at Stanford University: "I see this as a vehicle to raise questions about our whole nuclear strategy...
Montgomery, Ala...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala--The Southeastern Conference knocked No. 4 Florida out of the bowl picture yesterday but agreed to wait until next year before deciding if the Gators, charged with NCAA rules violations, can keep their first SEC football crown...
Doonesbury has a history of acerbity. But some clients find Trudeau more combative than ever. Newspapers, including the generally liberal St. Petersburg Times (circ. 300,000) and Anniston (Ala.) Star (circ. 31,000), have bumped panels on grounds of fairness or taste; at least four others have canceled outright. Said Bob Peterson, editorial-page editor of California's Chico Enterprise-Record (circ. 27,000), which dropped Doonesbury after touting its return: "It got progressively more biased. Trudeau is using a comic strip for a personal political soapbox." Still, the strip appears in 823 papers, its alltime high. Says Executive...