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BEST LESSON LEARNED Forty years after Jackie Robinson broke the color line, Los Angeles Dodgers Executive Al Campanis raised cries of racism by saying on ABC's Nightline that black players "may not have some of the necessities" to manage baseball teams, either on the field or in the front office...
...Nazareth, 4,000 youngsters ran through the streets, hurling debris at security forces. In Umm al Fahm, an Israeli Arab town in Galilee, 3,000 demonstrators were dispersed with tear gas when they blocked a highway near the town. Police and soldiers took care not to use lethal force against the Israeli Arabs, and none were killed...
...There are 1.4 million Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, plus 740,000 in Israel itself. Their high birth rate means they will outnumber Israel's 3.5 million Jews by the end of the century. "There will be no peace until the Israelis leave our land," said Shahla al Aklik, a Palestinian woman whose son was killed in the West Bank last week. "Even if we lose all our sons, the struggle will continue." That resolve has survived two decades of Israeli occupation, and neither bullets nor tear gas seems likely to destroy...
...hosts to those in need, the Sudanese are also enduring a drought and are rapidly losing patience. Earlier this year Ethiopian refugees streaming into the Sudanese border town of Kassala were attacked by mobs. "We have been involved in refugee problems since the Congo crisis of the 1960s," says Al-Amin Abdul Latif, Sudan's Ambassador to Egypt. "Enough is enough...
...Al Haig, you're such a tough guy..such...