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...city of 27,000 is again experiencing racial turmoil. Last week 150 black high school students boycotted classes to protest the school board's failure to renew the contract of black Superintendent Norward Roussell. Governor Guy Hunt ordered National Guardsmen to protect students who went to school despite the boycott...
...black school system, Roussell alienated whites by, among other things, revising the "tracking" system that had long channeled black students into lower-level courses. After the board's six white members voted to get rid of Roussell last December, five black board members quit in protest. Last week's boycott ended after five days, when Roussell appealed to the students to return to class. But biracial talks to determine his future broke down with no resolution of the impasse...
...People's Army and is the main guarantor of the F.S.L.N.'s power. Chamorro favors drastically reducing the army's size. If Ortega should win in a fair election, the U.S. would be under pressure to normalize relations with Managua or at the very least to lift the economic boycott imposed in 1985. For now, the Bush Administration is taking a tough stance, promising to improve relations with the Sandinistas if they are victorious, but only if they stop aiding rebel groups in neighboring countries and maintain the democratic freedoms that have been expanded during the campaign...
...Chamorro triumph would lead not only to the ending of the boycott but also, most likely, to an infusion of U.S. aid designed to help resuscitate the country's economy. But after spending more than $300 million in aid to the contras to dislodge the Sandinistas, Washington might find itself allocating large sums to a country run by a President who so far has demonstrated neither the vision nor the administrative skills to do her job well. Ortega's election, on the other hand, would signal that the nation's 1.75 million voters prefer the devil they know. In either...
Coke is it, even for Tutu--In the United States, many college activists have urged their fellow students to boycott products of the Coca-Cola Company, because Coca-Cola still has investments in South Africa. But when a reporter went to the Charles Hotel this week to interview South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu--the Nobel Peace Prize winner and leader of the anti-apartheid movement--Tutu was serving Coke...