Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard men's rugby club continued its winning ways with a 33-6 victory over George Mason yesterday at Soldiers Field in front of 100 spectators...
...victory, in front of a Parents Weekend crowd of 8600, was Brown's first since a 19-16 triumph over Columbia in 1987. Cornell dropped to 3-2 overall and 1-1 in the Ivy League...
...much of its programming from Telemundo's operations center near Miami. "The programming does not reflect the linguistic, cultural and ethnic communities in which these programs are shown," complains Raul Ruiz, professor of Chicano studies at California State University at Northridge, who has led numerous small demonstrations in front of the station's Glendale offices during the past four months...
Panah Huseynov, 32, a member of the directorate of the Azerbaijani Popular Front, is seated at a desk in the former schoolhouse that serves as the group's new headquarters. He is listening to an Azerbaijani refugee from Armenia describe how he and his family were expelled from their home last November. "I was thrown from my house, beaten," the man says. "I lived off weeds, anything I could find." As Huseynov shakes his head in anger, the refugee continued, "They want to cut us up like sheep. But we'll burn them first...
...nationalist inroads are most pronounced in predominantly Muslim Azerbaijan. The Popular Front, formed by a group of intellectuals less than a year ago, was initially considered a fringe group by the local Communist leadership. But then the front began to stage stunning demonstrations of grass-roots support, including a rally in the capital of Baku that drew some 300,000 protesters and a crippling rail blockade of neighboring Armenia. Finally Azerbaijan's Communist leaders officially recognized the nationalist political organization, and acceded to virtually its entire agenda. In a special session of the republic's supreme soviet three weeks...