Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should become a multiracial society that could take "ideas, cultures and even people from overseas." Former Labor Party leader Arthur Calwell stormed in reply that no red-blooded Australian wanted to see a "chocolate-colored" country, while Liberal Cabinet ministers insisted Australia would remain forever homogeneous. Today Vietnamese immigrants gather around high-rise public-housing buildings in Melbourne's inner-city neighborhood of Fitzroy, playing cards or talking in the soft twilight. What they will make of Australia, and Australia of them, is still to be determined...
...region's two potential flash points are Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, where postcommunist leaders seem unable to find common ground with either democratic or Islamic movements. President Rakhman Nabiyev of Tajikistan has been under a virtual state of siege since last month, when supporters of the opposition began to gather in the tens of thousands outside the parliament building to urge dismissal of the republic's legislature of holdover party officials. Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov received a warning signal of his own in | January, when students protesting the liberalization of prices clashed with police, resulting in two deaths. Muslim extremists...
...quirky 1975 single Bohemian Rhapsody (currently featured in the hit movie Wayne's World) is a best seller in both the U.S. and Britain, while three of Queen's old albums are now on the Billboard oldies chart. This week many of the singer's rock cohorts will gather at London's Wembley Stadium for "A Concert for Life," which will be televised worldwide to benefit AIDS research. One of the people who anticipated the huge resurgence in Queen's popularity was Mercury himself, who is said to have recorded enough new material with band mates before his death...
...GATHER FURTHER EVIDENCE that the bomb was not contained in an unaccompanied bag from Malta, Pan Am lawyer Shaughnessy recently interviewed under oath 20 officials who were in Malta on Dec. 21, 1988, including the airport security commander, the bomb-disposal engineer who inspected all the baggage, the general manager of ground operations of Air Malta, the head loader of Flight 180 and the three check-in agents. Their records showed that no unaccompanied suitcases were put aboard the flight, and some of the staff Shaughnessy interviewed are prepared to testify under oath that there was no bag that...
...these great Negro songs, born out of the pain and oppression of a proud people. You did not have to be Black to understand. You did not have to be a Christian to understand. By the presence of the three French women whom I met after the concert, I gather that you did not even have to speak English. The message in the music transcends such bounds...