Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said that, though race relations in America have improved, the media and others continue to describe racism as a paralyzing problem in American society...
...want to be the world's policeman, but if there is ever to be peace, then action must be taken to ensure this goal. It is proper that the U.S., as the most powerful nation in the world, with high ideals of human rights, lead efforts to preserve peace. America's actions in Kosovo to protect the Albanians, a Muslim people, from genocide and abuse of their human rights show a commitment to a just and peaceful world without any bias of race, religion or nationality. DWIGHT M. GOWDEY Seattle
...substitutes 1999, Milosevic, ethnic Albanians and Yugoslavia for 1939, Hitler, Jews and Germany, your article could have appeared in my history textbook covering World War II. Milosevic may not want to control all of Europe, but he does have the will to fight for Kosovo. If America and Europe do not have the will to expel Milosevic, then this region will once again be the birthplace of a world war. DON C. TYLER Fort Wayne...
...innocent enviro wandering the Web--or an innocent black-hearted polluter--learns to click skeptically. Brave souls who reach www.radio4all.org/anarchy/fakes get a list of "anti-environmental" groups, most of them with wonderfully benign-sounding names: the Abundant Wildlife Society of North America, the California Desert Coalition, the Evergreen Foundation, the Environmental Conservation Organization, Mothers' Watch. Maybe most of these really are benign. Dunno. I check out the National Wetlands Coalition, a big-biz coalition against wetlands, and the Global Climate Coalition. The cover of this last org has been blown for some time. It's a consortium including...
...years of personal study and policymaking. Larded with stirring phrases--"We must make the rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization"--and bold prescriptions, like eliminating the internal-combustion engine in 25 years, Earth in the Balance secured Gore's place in the environmentalists' pantheon as America's greenest national politician...