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...President Hosni Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party maintained its overwhelming majority in the legislature by winning 75% of the vote, thus virtually ensuring Mubarak a second six-year term when the Assembly nominates a President in October. An Islamic fundamentalist alliance of three parties, including the banned Muslim Brotherhood, polled 15% and replaced the right-wing New Wafd Party as the main opposition group...
This latter-day apartheid dismayed Charles Blackburn, a bearded karate instructor who had moved to Forsyth County from California. So he began organizing what he called a walk for brotherhood. Amid threats and lack of support, he called off his plans. Others insisted on going ahead. Soon local Klansmen let it be known that, as Sheriff Wesley Walraven put it, "they want to exercise their rights also...
...mobsters guilty of directing racketeering operations of the Mafia. Last week federal prosecutors in New York City unsealed a September indictment naming Salerno, 75, who heads the Genovese crime family, and three associates as co-conspirators in fixing the election of Jackie Presser as head of the powerful International Brotherhood of Teamsters in 1983. Whether or not Salerno is found guilty of these latest charges, he already faces more bad news in January, when he will be sentenced in the Mafia trial. The maximum stretch he could receive: 306 years...
...York City, conflicted emotions simmer to the surface when the subject turns to Bernhard Goetz and the shots he fired at four young blacks aboard a Manhattan subway train. A nation that would like to believe it can shun stereotypes, that cherishes the ideals of equality and brotherhood, continues to be haunted by the plight of a segment of its citizenry that remains mired in a seemingly intractable dilemma of race and poverty: the young, black males of its underclass...
...opportunity to open people's hearts to these questions, and be reflective, in some ways," said Assistant Professor of Literature Michael C. Blumenthal, who read "Song of Myself," a poem by Walt Whitman that expresses a theme of universal brotherhood...