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...Cambridge's two leading universities have jumped on the bandwagon, and activists are hoping their clout is enough to push the military to change its long-standing policy...
Part of this sense of mission is the unintended legacy of the Reagan Administration. By cutting the EPA's regulatory clout and budget, the Administration forced the states to take up the nation's environmental business. Says Talbot Page, an environmental-studies professor at Brown University: "The Reagan era created a climate in which grass-roots organizations began to think they were needed and could be effective...
...however, McGee has shifted from theatrics to threats. While the earlier Panthers stressed self-defense, he vows that unless his demands for $100 million in jobs programs and city council representation to give blacks more clout in city government are met by 1995, his militia will "cripple" the city and "extract a measure of justice." He even jokes about taking hostages if the city does not respond to his satisfaction...
...compromises on acid rain and auto emissions leave environmentalists and business still squabbling. -- Muslim Comeback: The fight against crime and drugs gives new clout to the Nation of Islam. -- Iran-Contra: Poindexter is the scandal's ultimate fall...
...themselves when they view their history as one mainly of oppression. He sees things white observers often miss: Jesse Jackson is most convincing when he demands "the best of those who live in the worst conditions"; Louis Farrakhan's anti-Semitism appeals to many blacks because they envy the clout of Jews; such artists as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and writer Albert Murray have blended the traditions of Africans, Europeans, Native Americans and Asians into "the rich mulatto textures of American culture." When he sticks to the issues, Crouch is a provocative social analyst. But when he sets...