Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...current program has a racist, sexist and imperialist bias," Katz said, noting that one-third of Stanford students are members of a non-Western ethnic background...
This part of the plan has three benefits. The first removes the problems that will result if any particular ethnic group controls this holy city. Jerusalem is holy for three religions and there is no reason for Jews, Christians or Moslems to have a special claim to it. Yet all should have equal access to it. The second benefit comes with increased security. With a U.N.-controlled area similiar to the District of Columbia squashed between the West Bank and Israel that border is likely to be more secure and peaceful. The last benefit is that Israel will then make...
...mischief and political subversion on a grand scale. The demonstrators, under the gaze of television cameras, provoked Daley's police to rage. There were unarticulated class antagonisms at work -- many of the demonstrators being children of comparative affluence, the police coming from the city's blue-collar and ethnic neighborhoods. The adrenaline of that difference gave the clubs more force when the cops at last cut loose and went after the kids' ribs and skulls...
...plight of Razo, a former varsity football player, has drawn national attention since he turned himself in to police last summer in connection with a string of armed robberies. Razo, who is from a California barrio, said at the time that he felt alienated at Harvard because of his ethnic identity...
Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe joined hands in 1980 to fight a guerrilla war against their country's white-minority government. But soon after Rhodesia became Zimbabwe, the longtime rivals parted acrimoniously. Mugabe ruled the country as Prime Minister with the support of his ethnic group, the Shona, who make up about 80% of the population. Nkomo headed the main opposition party, composed of the Ndebele people. He was accused by the government of being behind Ndebele freedom fighters in the area of southwestern Zimbabwe known as Matabeleland. Since 1982 the rebels and the Shonas have waged a war that...