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Deputy Prime Minister Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado, a liberal army officer sprang to his feet to confront the raiders, but was butted savagely in the stomach with a submachine gun and manhandled into his seat. Outgoing Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez angrily rose and declared that he still represented the people. "Sit down, pig!" shouted one of the attackers. As shots rang out, most of the legislators ducked, but Suárez remained defiantly upright on the government front bench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: The Franquista Coup That Failed | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...emotional distress of racism stifles the expression of all but the most sensitive of our artists. A direct confrontation with it leave mouths open in surprise; it is this shock that The Dark End of the Street portrays. The children of Cambridge must learn about this problem while they hang out. Here at Harvard, factions can confront each other on an intellectual basis, but on the Cambridge streets, people have to take sides. Dark End catches a group of these teenagers before they've learned to call each other "white bitch" and "nigger". When the film opens, Billy and Donna...

Author: By Eve M. Troutt, | Title: Another Side of Cambridge | 3/3/1981 | See Source »

Michael J. Calhoun, vice-chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission, said last night at the Institute of Politics that Blacks must begin to confront economic realities or risk being "left further and further behind" mainstream America...

Author: By Paul Jefferson, | Title: Economics Hurts Blacks, Official Says | 2/27/1981 | See Source »

...found "satyagrah," the creative use of non-violent resistance as a strategy for change, "a life belt thrust into the hand of a drowning men." It worked in Zambia, but his confidence in this strategy waned after he became the nation's first and only president and had to confront another freedom struggle in the country next door--Rhodesia...

Author: By James S. Maguire, | Title: The Violence Dilemma | 2/24/1981 | See Source »

...required by law to keep records open to the public and follow standard bookkeeping practices. Churches have to meet no such formal standards and have been treated as exempt from government scrutiny under the constitutional guarantee of religious freedom. But more and more, church money raisers these days confront a growing public skepticism about how ecclesiastical cash is handled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: When Mammon Serves God | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

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