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...applaud these trends, because they stand in healthy contrast to the shamed repudiation of Africa and everything African that dominated our thinking as recently as a generation ago. It was not until the civil rights movement set us on the still unrealized path to first-class American citizenship that we could feel proud enough of ourselves to embrace an ancestral homeland that had long been equated, in our minds and those of whites, with backwardness and degradation...
Just hours after the agreement was reached, President Bush strode into the White House Rose Garden to applaud the pact as "the beginning of a new era." Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari went on early-morning television to praise the deal, while Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney called it "an important step forward." Elsewhere the reception was chillier. In Japan, angry trade and auto-industry officials charged that the local-content requirement would force Japanese manufacturers to redesign cars sold in North America and jack up prices...
...some of the minority Americans who traveled to Houston this week say the Democrats are dead wrong. They blast the opposition for what they term its unworkable programs, its unfulfillable promises and its untruthful promises and its untruthful agenda. They applaud the GOP for some of the same reasons the Democrats criticize it--that it makes no pretenses of offering special support for minorities...
...Gore's political career won't go the way of Dan Quayle's. Clinton chose the senator for far more than his all-American looks, and his fans in the party applaud his stands on the issues. But amidst the hoopla about his environmentalism and his foreign policy record, people still grasp for pictures. Why else do Democrats quiver in anticipation of a Gore-Quayle debate...
...rights activists applaud the ordinance...