Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heavy-handed policies appear to have rationales behind them. It is true, of course, that rebellious Eritrea, governed as an Italian colony from 1890 until World War II, has a tribal makeup different from the rest of Ethiopia. Yet the country as a whole contains more than 80 distinct ethnic groups, and poverty-stricken Eritrea could hardly survive as an independent entity. It is also likely that Mengistu's motives for forcibly transporting 600,000 peasants from Eritrea and neighboring Tigre to the less populated southern part of the country were more political than humanitarian. Nonetheless, a number of Western...
...place 16 friends and relatives in city jobs. Yet he was the first black alderman to break with former Mayor Jane Byrne and thus help Washington defeat her in 1983. He supported Washington's policies, but in a quiet style that did not alienate the council's white ethnic pols. While Washington won with solid black and some white-liberal support, Sawyer could conceivably build a more durable coalition of ethnic whites and a substantial number of blacks...
...relations. State Department officials note the surge in Jewish emigration and point with satisfaction to the even larger burst in Armenian emigration, which is expected to grow from fewer than 247 Armenians last year to more than 6,000 in 1987. By year's end an estimated 12,000 ethnic Germans will have been allowed to move to West Germany, vs. only 783 in 1986. In a pre-summit gesture of goodwill, Soviet officials told Western diplomats last week that they would approve emigration requests for 73 Soviet citizens. (Meiman was not on the list...
Brandeis introduced pork and shellfish in one of the university's two dining halls this September in an attempt to "establish an international kitchen facility which will better serve Asian and other ethnic and religious groups' preferential tastes," according to a report by the committee which approved the change...
...sorry about the incident, it's over and I'd like to get on to bigger and better things," Kemp said to the packed audience. "I have said over and over again that there is no place in my campaign for any religious or any racial or any ethnic prejudice or bias or joke-telling...