Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LUCK CLUB by Amy Tan (Putnam; $18.95). A bright, sharp-flavored first novel on the subject of growing up ethnic in the U.S. The topic sounds familiar, but the Chinese spice added to this old recipe is invigorating and refreshingly true...
When the street fell silent, 16 people lay dead and nearly 250 were injured; three later died of their wounds. It was the worst day of ethnic violence in the Soviet Union since February 1988, when 32 died after gangs of Azerbaijanis hunted down Armenians in the Azerbaijan city of Sumgait. The authorities immediately imposed an 11 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew. Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, a native of Georgia, canceled a trip to East and West Germany and flew to Tbilisi, where he appealed for calm. A government commission was set up to investigate the deaths, and Georgian party...
...satisfy the Georgians, and many will still press for more independence from Moscow. The Supreme Soviet last week issued a double-edged decree that is not likely to improve matters. It replaces discredited laws against dissidents but conveniently enables the state to imprison those found guilty of "kindling inter-ethnic or racial hostility." Unless ethnic passions in Tbilisi can be lulled, the Georgians may find themselves among the first to test that...
...many Northern cities, the Chicago election was an ethnic power struggle. Six years ago, the charismatic Harold Washington became the city's first black mayor with a crusading campaign among blacks that also won the support of some white liberals. That coalition won him re-election in 1987. But his inarticulate successor, Acting Mayor Eugene Sawyer, who took over after Washington's death 16 months ago, was unable to hold the alliance together. His cause was doomed when Alderman Timothy Evans, a Washington disciple, rebuffed Jackson's appeal for black unity. With the black electorate split and black turnout...
...LUCK CLUB by Amy Tan (Putnam; $18.95). A bright, sharp-flavored first novel on the subject of growing up ethnic in the U.S. The topic sounds familiar, but the Chinese spice added to this old recipe is invigorating and refreshingly true...