Word: descents
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...what about the 70,000 Americans of Japanese descent and 42,000 Japanese resident aliens sent to internment camps during World War II? Even if they were citizens, even if they had sworn to uphold the Constitution, they were removed from their homes and treated like outsiders...
Sierra Leone's descent into chaos began on May 25, 1997, when a group of rebel soldiers from the Sierra Leone Army staged a coup d'etat, replaced democratically elected President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koroma, and soon allied themselves with R.U.F., the rebel movement that had waged a civil war earlier in the 1990s. Koroma was quickly isolated by some of Sierra Leone's West African neighbors, such as Nigeria and Guinea, which wanted to see Kabbah restored. Last February an ECOMOG military force pushed the junta from power, driving the rebels out of the capital...
Your report "Descent Into Madness" depicted the mob incidents in Jakarta in the context of ethnic and religious hatred [WORLD, Dec. 7]. This is a mistake. Since President Suharto's resignation in May, Indonesia has entered uncharted territory marked by the guarantee of political freedom, a free press and the establishment of new political parties on an almost daily basis. We are facing huge challenges as we transform a society that has had over 30 years of authoritarian rule into one that is democratic. But the transition to democracy requires time and effort. We appreciate those who show their sympathy...
...Keep America Beautiful. (Later he made a sequel.) As the American Indian who sheds a tear at the sight of a landscape littered with garbage and polluted by smoke, Cody brought the nonprofit group unprecedented attention and support. In 1996 a New Orleans newspaper alleged he was of Italian descent--a charge Cody vigorously denied...
Less amusing is the number of intellectuals, businessmen and political leaders who gave eugenics their blessing or fervid support. The list begins with Darwin, who in The Descent of Man praised his cousin Galton and decreed that genius "tends to be inherited." Other champions included the young Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, Alexander Graham Bell, John Maynard Keynes, Theodore Roosevelt and the usually taciturn Calvin Coolidge, who declared during his vice presidency that "Nordics deteriorate when mixed with other races...