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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sign away his parental rights. "He was my father, but I somehow never could think of him that way," she wrote in Nancy, her 1980 autobiography. Says President Reagan: "She is very protective, with an intense family loyalty that grew out of her own rearing in the doctor's family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Co-Starring At the White House | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

...Texas men were sentenced to 30 years in prison for the 1982 bombings of two clinics in Florida. One of them had been joined by the other man's brother in the kidnaping of an Illinois doctor who performed abortions and the physician's wife. The three men claimed they belonged to the Army of God, a group that investigators insist had only the three members, although anonymous callers claiming responsibility for later attacks have used the same name. Curtis Anton Beseda, an unemployed roofer, confessed his guilt while on trial for four arson attacks last year on clinics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Explosions Over Abortion | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

Just what happened in the causes? This question has puzzled readers since Forster's novel was published. Even in the movie, the question is not completely answered. But suddenly Adela charges down the stone slope, panting and gasping hysterically. Hours later, Doctor Aziz is arrested and charged with her race...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: Awakening in India | 1/9/1985 | See Source »

...FILM also explores race relations between the British imperialists and Indian natives. It is Dr. Aziz, brilliantly portrayed by Banerjee, who symbolizes hope for improved interracial relations. High-strung, conscientious, and inpressionable, the young doctor reveals conflicting emotions of fierce and humble respect toward the British raj. His sentimental heart is stirred with love for his strange and majestic country. He boasts of his ancestors, the proud, warlike princes. He craves India's independence...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: Awakening in India | 1/9/1985 | See Source »

...Aziz'z attitude changes when he is arrested and placed at the mercies of the prejudiced British court system. The respectable doctor is roughly hauled off to prison while the prosecutors confiscate and search his personal belongings. The district attorney, an acerbic Scotsman, begins his case with the truculent assertion: "It is a universal truth that the darker races are attracted to the fairer, but not vice-versa." Aziz's admiration for the British turns to fear, and finally to outrage...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: Awakening in India | 1/9/1985 | See Source »

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