Word: calls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year ago, in the heat of an August summer, Democrats were trying to solve the "Jesse problem." Overlooked for the vice-presidential nomination, Jesse Jackson continued to use the campaign as a rallying point for his cause: a cause some would call social/political reform, and others would call ego-mania...
...next issue, the Review will demand not only that more of the texts be farmed out but also that Israel produce a list of all unpublished texts and who has them. In addition, the magazine will call for access to photographs of all scrolls for interested researchers, who have been kept waiting for decades. Team members contend that this would violate their scholarly rights and that without the analysis of seasoned experts, outsiders would misunderstand what they read...
Such outcomes are increasingly common as South African blacks call on legal activists to challenge the apartheid system, often with help from groups and lawyers in the U.S. Encouraged by their success, more and more lawyers and organizations are entering the struggle. After lengthy legal battles this year, the Alexandra Five, charged with treason for trying to create autonomous local government structures, were acquitted, and last year the Sharpeville Six, sentenced to hang for their part in the murder of a black township official, obtained commutations of their death sentences. Perhaps the biggest advance is the recent working paper...
...classic problem of men at the top: whether to heed the heart or the head. So far, he has taken the cerebral approach. That has pleased many leaders, who have praised the President for "the courage of restraint." But at home Bush heard Pennsylvania's Republican Senator Arlen Specter call the U.S. response "pitiful...
...Congress of People's Deputies, reformers take a historic stand against party rule, while scholars call into question the founder of the Soviet state. -- Denis Thatcher, the British Prime Minister's husband, keeps a stiff upper lip in public. -- Poland narrowly avoids political chaos again as the Communist's Czeslaw Kiszczak is chosen to be Prime Minister, while food prices soar...