Word: biehle
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...BIEHL DID NOT GIVE HER LIFE TO Africa, as she had planned. Instead Africa took her life -- not the democratic continent she had dreamed of and worked to achieve, but the one she thought she saw beyond, the Africa of hatred and futility...
Last week Biehl, 26, a Fulbright scholar dedicated to hastening South African democracy, became the first American victim of the pitiless violence that has accompanied the country's slow transformation. Her nationality was not significant to the teenagers who knifed her repeatedly in the head: her skin color was reason enough. But her murder was another indication that the violent, sometimes anti-white rhetoric adopted by some political groups is finding expression in action. The death of an idealist is not the death of idealism, but it sent a chilly message to those who hope that good intentions...
...radiant girl who fell in love with cultural diversity in high school among Santa Fe's Hispanics and Native Americans and was drawn in college toward the possibilities of black sovereignty in Africa. "She wanted to make a difference," says classmate Katie Bolich. "She was so committed." Biehl wrote her honors thesis at Stanford University on Chester Crocker, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State who helped bring independence to Namibia. In 1989 she traveled there and developed a close friendship with Namibian President Sam Nujoma...
...supplied lunches to 40,000 city schoolchildren. Radiation levels higher than normal were also found in the urine of local residents and in the water of a parochial school swimming pool. Rather than fight to retain its license, American Atomics decided to leave the state. Said Company President Peter Biehl: "It's quite clear that people don't want us in Arizona...
...elected are: Philip N. Alexander of Dunster House and Kingston, Jamaica; John Arao of Leverett House and Evanston, III.; Jeffrey D. Bernhard of Quincy House and Buffalo, N.Y.; Michael M. Biehl of Adams House and Elm Grove, Wis.; John P. Boyd of Lowell House and Stoneham; Steven C. Bunnell of Kirkland House and Rumson, N.J.; Ira A. Burnim of North House and Melrose; and, Jack F. Conn of South House and CreveCoeur...