Word: furor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these visitors, Jack Greenberg, is white is simply not the animus behind our actions," BLSA executive committee member Donald Christopher Tyler wrote in a recent letter to The Crimson. A press release issued by the National Black American Law Students Association, BLSA's national body, issued after the press furor, also denies that students ever took real exception to Greenberg's race. "The fact that one of the two visiting lecturers for the boycotted course is a Black attorney should make it obvious that BLSA is not motivated by 'anti-white' sentiments, nor by a personal animosity toward Mr. Greenberg...
...despite his iconoclastic admissions, so is Raymond Donovan, in the face of continuing allegations of gangland associations: and so are William Casey and William French Smith, in spite of disclosure of their financial mixdealings. And there is no sign that James Watt is on the way out, despite the furor over his letter to Israeli Ambassaror Moshe Areins which somewhat to blackmail American Jews into supporting his slash and burn land use policies Reagan seems confident that his adoring fans will forgive members of his supporting cast...
resolutions relevant to the Palestinian question." In the furor that followed, California's Paul McCloskey, the only Republican in the group, triumphantly declared that the statement implied that the P.L.O. was about to recognize Israel's right to exist. The Congressman said he would urge the U.S. to open direct dealings with the P.L.O. But McCloskey's euphoria was soon punctured. Within hours the so-called Arafat document was denounced by Israel as a propaganda ploy, and explicitly disavowed as a recognition of Israel by official P.L.O. spokesmen in Beirut, New York and Paris. That blow came...
...President was unhurt. In El Salvador, where CNN was outstaffed four or five to one by each of the Big Three networks, it was CNN Correspondent James Allen Miklaszewski who caused worldwide furor by photographing an American military "adviser" carrying an M-16 rifle in violation of U.S. Government policy. Satisfying as those coups were, perhaps most significant was a victory CNN won by taking the networks and the White House to court: it now has a full share in providing and receiving pool coverage of day-to-day Administration events...
...Hinckley Furor...