Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Members assembled to protest the "racist sociobiological statements of Harvard professors like Herrnstein, James Q. and E.O. Wilson, Glazer and Bernard" Davis, who assert that the poor and minorities are culturally and genetically inferior," Steven Rosenthal, Boston CAR organizer, said in a speech Saturday...
...human rights. But for Black people, a fifth freedom was essential. Black pioneers and Black martyrs like Martin Luther King, Jr. lived an experience of which Roosevelt was incapable. They knew that as an African person, in European America--a Black person in white America--in order to assert a claim to these four freedoms, we had to demand a fifth: the freedom to demand and expect to enjoy freedom. For unless racial discrimination, economic segregation, political exploitation and social humiliation were abolished, we were still slaves, still eliminated from the America that called itself free. For Black people...
...runs the accepted version of the Romanov regicide. Now two reporters from BBC Television, Anthony Summers and Tom Mangold, assert a dramatically new version: the Reds faked the original massacre scene in order to convince White Russians-who soon captured Ekaterinburg-that their goal of a royal restoration was hopeless because the Tsar and his family were dead. The two journalists conclude that there were not enough bullet holes or bloodstains in the murder room to accord with the gunshot deaths of seven people. In their opinion, the women were spared for a time. Alexandra was a cousin of Kaiser...
More surprising, the government at the same time issued a deportation letter against a U.S.-born Fleet Street journalist, Mark Hosenball, who had frequently used Agee as a source of information. Scotland Yard did not detail the charges against Hosenball other than to assert that he had "sought information for publication which would be harmful to state security...
...forced to cut their prime lending rate to corporations twice in little more than a month-from 7% to 6¾% and most recently to 6½%. One reason for the drop is a slightly easier credit stand by the Federal Reserve Board. Another cause of slumping rates, bankers assert, is slack loan demand from worried businessmen. Bankers argue that lowered rates will not boost borrowing, but will cut into bank profit margins...