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...Like so many young African students, part of a movement initiated by President Kennedy to encourage immigration from the continent, Rockey arrived in the United States in the early ’70s, looking for opportunity in the post-Civil Rights era. He found it at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where he received his degree in 1975, and in Minnesota, where he earned his master’s at Mankato State and went to work for the Burlington Railroad...
...Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, has its own vaunted prank tradition. Although of late its pranks are rare, small in scope, and bereft of any real ingenuity, in its heyday members were responsible for a number of shrewdly cunning acts of civil disobedience...
...Dixon Osburn, the co-founder and executive director of SLDN, accepted the award on the organization’s behalf, saying that lifting the military’s ban would mark a milestone in gay rights reminiscent of the civil rights struggle...
...Berger, it means a failure of his campaign promise four years ago to clean up Guatemala's politics, notoriously corrupt since the country's 36-year civil war ended a decade ago. During that war, which claimed nearly a quarter-million lives, the Guatemalan military launched a scorched-earth counterinsurgency campaign against leftist guerillas, massacring entire Mayan villages accused of supporting the rebels. Many wartime figures were never prosecuted for their offenses, and human rights groups and the U.N. have warned that former state security forces - laid off after the peace accords mandated a downsizing of the military - could...
...Eduardo D'Aubuisson was the son of ARENA's founder, Roberto D'Aubuisson, who was accused of heading death squads during the 1980s civil war. The elder D'Aubuisson, who died in 1992, was found by a U.N.-backed truth commission to have ordered the 1980 assassination of Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero. His son and colleagues were murdered on the 15th anniversary of D'Aubuisson's death from throat cancer...