Word: british
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School administrators learned the symbol's devilish significance at a seminar on cults conducted last spring at the University of Houston. (The peace sign was devised by British pacifists who combined the semaphore signs for N and D, standing for nuclear disarmament.) The proposed ban has drawn some wry comments from students. Quipped a twelve-year-old: "If they ban peace symbols, they'll have to ban basic geometry because of all its lines and circles...
...emotional dissent, Justice Rehnquist included the text of The Star- Spangled Banner. Its words tell the story of the flag's survival amid British bombs bursting over Fort McHenry -- an image of a banner resilient in the face of flame. Similarly, as long as the freedom for which it stands is resolutely respected, the flag is certain to survive the flames of all the Joey Johnsons who would wish otherwise. "And it is this resilience," proclaimed Justice Brennan, "that we re-reassert today...
...British colony is not alone in suffering from what refugee workers call compassion fatigue. Over the past decade, the world's refugee population has ballooned from 4.6 million to almost 14.5 million. Many of the displaced have fled civil strife and hope to go home someday, like the 6 million Afghans living in camps in Pakistan and Iran. Some, like the Bulgarians of Turkish descent who are streaming into Turkey at the rate of more than 2,000 a day and the Rumanians of Hungarian origin who are seeking safety in Hungary, are too caught up in the frightened flight...
Kohl's example demonstrates how complicated the debate has become. In Sri Lanka civil war has driven out more than 125,000 Tamils since 1983. When 64 Tamils landed at London's Heathrow Airport in February 1987, British authorities attempted to deport 58 of them. The official explanation was that the asylum seekers "failed to prove they had a justifiable fear of persecution," although several of them bore torture marks inflicted in Sri Lankan prisons. Panicked, the refugees stripped off their clothes on $ Heathrow's tarmac and refused to budge. A court injunction eventually forced authorities to grant the Tamils...
Although elections for the European Parliament may still be more symbolic than substantive, the balloting shattered British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's image of invincibility last week. Her Conservative Party suffered its first national defeat in nearly 15 years, capturing only 34.7% of the vote and losing 13 of its 45 European Parliament seats. By contrast, the left- leaning Labor Party totted up 40.2%, stirring dreams among Laborites of ousting Thatcher from power at home...