Word: burtons
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...think that this has not led to the perpetration of racial stereotypes as a basis for discrimination is naive. Last month, LeVar Burton, the television actor currently starring on the new Star Trek, was stopped in California for no apparent reason except that he was black and driving...
Burmese authorities claimed that 144 people were killed during the first three days, but the true death total probably surpassed 500. Horrified at the carnage, U.S. Ambassador Burton Levin called upon the Saw Maung regime to condemn the killing of protesters by its soldiers. The ambassadors of Great Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands and West Germany remonstrated "in the strongest terms" with the Burmese government for its "defiance of respect for human rights...
Most rabbis who are willing to help Jewish-Gentile couples demand certain conditions. Rabbi Robert Schreibman of suburban Chicago is typical: he performs mixed-marriage ceremonies only if the partners promise to rear their children as Jews. Rabbi Burton Padoll of Peabody, Mass., exacts no promises, but will not preside jointly with a Christian minister or within a church. A handful of rabbis are untroubled by Christian involvement. Chicago's Rabbi Howard Berman will conduct a ceremony if the partners simply agree to spend more than a year in his outreach program for the intermarried, one of the biggest...
...Constable Paris: Jordan Bonfante, Margot Hornblower, Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Rome: Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Beijing: Sandra Burton Hong Kong: William Stewart, Jay Branegan Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: Peter Stoler Central America: John Moody Mexico City: John Borrell Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez...
...Constable Paris: Jordan Bonfante, Margot Hornblower, Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Rome: Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Beijing: Sandra Burton Hong Kong: William Stewart, Jay Branegan Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: Peter Stoler Central America: John Moody Mexico City: John Borrell Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez...