Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hutus living in exile in Tanzania. Seated in the summer house of his lakeside palace while two crested cranes paced back and forth in a nearby cage, Micombero explained: "Just as in the U.S. and most other countries, it is the political majority that rules rather than an ethnic majority." Throughout the entire interview he did not use the words Tutsi or Hutu once, apparently in an attempt to emphasize his determination to eradicate tribal distinctions. "It is true that many have died in Burundi," he said. "My own people started the terrible troubles of last year, but they were...
...holiday swelled the crowd and the humidity had gone down, leaving a nice breeze. Dog racing attracts a cross section of Boston's ethnic elements and if you can manage to get into talking with the bettors, you can learn something about the area in which we go to school...
East Cambridge, the city's ethnic stew with its mixture of first and second generation Portuguese, Italians, Irish, and Polish, lies three blocks north of Kendall Square. Factories fill these three blocks. The neighborhood is poor, working class and full of fierce loyalties. Many of the residents work in the nearby plants; unemployment plagues the area...
...Directions program, with its ideals of cultural pluralism and ethnic diversity, did not upset the balance of the "fishbowl" but rather created the balance. I believe that the changing quality of our student body is not inconsistent with national trends...
Like other ethnic groups before them, American blacks are steadily climbing the political ladder, winning more state, local and national offices each election. Some 90 black mayors are now serving in U.S. cities and towns, including Newark and Gary. That is not surprising, because those cities have black majorities. But last week brought the most dramatic evidence yet of black political progress. Los Angeles, the nation's third largest city, elected its first black mayor, although the Negro population is a distinct (18%) minority. City Councilman Thomas Bradley won because enough whites regarded him not as a black politician...