Word: duncan
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This month a handful of white students at the James F. Byrnes High School in Duncan, S.C., which in 1970 banned use of the flag in official activities, began demanding the right to wear it on their clothes. What started as a violation of the school's code of conduct soon developed into a full-scale freedom of speech demonstration, with 80 students and parents parading the rebel banner on Duncan's East Main Street. Said 10th-grader Jamie Dill: "My daddy gave me this ((flag)). I believe in what it stands for." By the time the flap subsided last...
EXECUTIVE EDITORS: Richard Duncan, Edward L. Jamieson, Ronald Kriss...
EXECUTIVE EDITORS: Richard Duncan, Edward L. Jamieson, Ronald Kriss...
...last Aug. 3 after his Republican Guard overran Kuwait. If Iraq's million-man army had gone on to invade Saudi Arabia and the gulf states, the whole shape of the struggle could have been different. "At that time there were no American forces in the area," says Andrew Duncan, assistant director of London's International Institute of Strategic Studies. "Saddam's troops could have swept down the . gulf, toppling one state after another...
EXECUTIVE EDITORS: Richard Duncan, Edward L. Jamieson, Ronald Kriss...