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...greatly contributed to the South's ability to purchase slaves inexpensively during the early years of the British presence in the Americas. This Black-Arab association has plagued him in several instances, in his failure to praise the Israelis for the airlift of starving Black Ethiopian Jews form their barren homeland, in his now infamous "hymie" slur, and in his notorious alliance with Black Muslim leader and anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, Jackson's economic and political ties have led him into strange difficulties...
...firm in Cambridge, Mass: "Certainly you have to be encouraged by a Prime Minister who gets up before his people and urges them to buy American products." Nakasone's program to reduce import barriers was less encouraging. It was brimming with promises and restatements of earlier commitments but almost barren of specifics. Some of its provisions...
...menacing action began last Wednesday, on barren, rock-strewn ground marking a rare flat stretch of the rugged border between Marxist Nicaragua and U.S. ally Honduras. The oppressive quiet of early afternoon was broken by a buzz, quickly swelling into a roar. Out of a cloud of dust lumbered heavy tanks and armored personnel carriers, following an obvious invasion route north toward the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, some 80 miles away...
However, before anyone could quite realize what was happening, Bluestone and Baldauf had singled, Barren had reached on a bungled fielder's choice grounder, Brown had driven in one with her single, and Hayes had cleared the sacks with her shot...
...point to another point, where they will just starve in a new location." McPherson's assessment has drawn a stinging rebuff from the Ethiopians. In Washington, Charge d'Affaires Tamene Eshete accused resettlement critics of attempting to "perpetuate starvation" in his country. The northern provinces, Eshete said, are "totally barren," and "there is no point in keeping those people there...