Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...starts happening on New Year's Day, just six weeks from now. Under the banner of promoting competition in the U.S. phone service, American Telephone & Telegraph, the Bell System, will die at age 107, shattered in the largest court-mandated breakup of a company since the split-up of Standard Oil in 1911. In place of the old Ma Bell will stand the "new" AT&T and seven regional telephone holding companies, all beginning life as giants and carrying such unfamiliar names as Nynex, Ameritech, U S West and Pacific Telesis. The eight new companies will immediately join...
...anti-rally developed on the steps of Widener with American flag waving students singing "the Star Spangled Banner" and other American songs. Various speakers referred to them as assorted different adjectives, all leading to the idea of immaturity. I am in no position to judge their actions as immature or inappropriate, but I do know that the anti-rallyists did not, while I was there, "drop" to the level of colorful name calling that one Harvard faculty member of the anti-intervention groups...
...Soviet opinion piece in praise of the religious nature of the Iranian revolution would seem a slip of the censor, save that just such an article. "Under the Green Banner of Islam," appeared in several republic there are 15 republics in the Soviet Union) newspapers in December 1980. The author an Azeri analyst in the Institute of Scientific Atheism in Moscow, argues in his article that Islam need not be by definition a negative social force since religiously inspired opposition may at times be disguised anti-colonialism, a manifestation of popular demands for economic and social justice. Religious opposition...
...curators went the spoils. The blue-and-white lectern emblem proclaiming NATIONAL WOMEN'S CONFERENCE 1977, which had hung for three hectic, fractious, exhilarating days in Houston, last week was headed for Washington's Smithsonian Institution. It will repose with such other memorabilia as the star-spangled banner that flew over Fort McHenry and Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. And well it might...
...some investigative reporting in Nicaragua. Newsmen visiting an island near a small fishing village on the northwestern Zamora coast, just 40 miles from the Salvadoran border, uncovered the remains of what appears to have been a depot for smuggling arms to guerrillas in El Salvador, including a Sandinista army banner, rifle shell casings and a radio antenna. The discovery buttressed U.S. claims that Nicaragua routinely supplies the Salvadoran rebels by boat across the Gulf of Fonseca...