Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proved indecisive, delaying for a full week the firing of a subordinate who had made blatantly anti-Semitic speeches. Sawyer was reduced to claiming that he had accepted the keys to city hall in order to achieve gains for blacks. "Had I not taken those keys," declared Sawyer, "the ethnic rainbow we see would not be there. I'm going to keep the keys to keep the dream alive...
Months of deepening tension between its bitterly divided national republics and ethnic groups have brought Yugoslavia dangerously close to civil war. In the autonomous province of Kosovo, striking ethnic Albanian lead and zinc miners protesting a strident campaign by Serbians to tighten their grip touched off a wave of demonstrations. Tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians joined the strike, forcing the resignations of provincial Communist Party boss Rahman Morina and other officials considered to be puppets of Serbia...
Women now comprise 7.8 percent of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' senior ranks and 27.7 percent of its junior members. Ethnic minority faculty make up 7 percent of FAS's tenured members and 12.1 percent of its junior faculty. These percentages are less than half those of the population of women and minorities at most other Ivy League schools...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) historian yesterday told an Agassiz House audience of 30 people that Hispanic women must not be seen as separate from their society, but should be seen in relation to Hispanic men, Blacks and other ethnic groups...
...serves as the local Klan office. He now heads the National Association for the Advancement of White People from the same location. While he professes to believe in "civil rights for all people," his new organization publishes an anti-Semitic newspaper (30,000 subscribers) that advocates restricting Jews to ethnic enclaves...