Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year had a kind of Aristotelian logic, the proportions of tragedy. Hope begot death, revolution begot counterrevolution...
...party campaign that attracted a large following among blue-collar workers, ethnics, and Middle Americans who felt abandoned by their own country and its politics. There was poetry, if not logic, in the fact that many voters who would have supported Robert Kennedy switched to Wallace after Kennedy's death. Kennedy and Wallace, so different in most ways, drew from the same deep pools of passion and longing for a voice...
Kennedy's funeral left the nation numb -- but not for long. Once again, confrontation took over. Kennedy's death widened the cleavage between those who still saw redemption from the country's agonies within conventional politics and those who wanted to knock the system down. The two sides slouched toward each other at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago...
...writes in Albuquerque, N. Mex., where he is an active opponent of U.S. policy in Central America. -- BOBBY SEALE, cofounder of the Black Panthers, studies and teaches at Temple University in Philadelphia. He has published a book on barbecuing. -- SIRHAN SIRHAN, assassin of Robert F. Kennedy, was sentenced to death, later reduced to life imprisonment. He lost his ninth bid for parole in May 1987. -- TOMMIE SMITH, U.S. track star and Black Power protester at the Mexico City Olympics, is a physical-education and health instructor at California's Santa Monica College. -- TINY TIM (Herbert Khaury), falsetto-voiced pop entertainer...
...Memphis, 42,000 people walked silently in the march Martin Luther King Jr. had planned. By the end of the month, Ralph Abernathy, his friend and successor, kicked off the Poor People's Campaign. In May, the campaign arrived in Washington. There, two months after King's death, a makeshift village arose. It was called Resurrection City U.S.A...