Word: guards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most of the 1995-1996 NBA season, Denver Nuggets' star guard Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf refused to stand for the national anthem prior to games. He would either stretch on the sidelines or remain in the locker room...
DENVER: The price of principle for Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf is $31,707 per game. That's how much the Denver Nuggets guard is losing after being suspended by the NBA without pay for violating a league rule that requires players to "stand and line up in a dignified posture" during the national anthem. Abdul-Rauf, a devout Muslim, said he doesn't believe in standing for any nationalistic ideology. "My beliefs are more important than anything. If I have to give up basketball, I will," Abdul-Rauf said. "This country has a long history of (oppression...
Last Saturday the Brothers tried to stage a memorial service by sending boats and planes into the Florida Straits near the site of the shoot-down. U.S. Coast Guard cutters accompanied the flotilla, and American fighter-jets were in the area. Their mission was not only to protect the mourners but to discourage grandstanding on their part. As it happened, the risk of another incident was minimal, since bad weather forced the Brothers' boats and planes to head back to Florida before they got close to Cuba. The damage has been done, however, and it seems nothing can stop Cuban...
...colleagues have jumped the wall to support Wigand; in fact, none have even contacted him to offer words of encouragement. That is understandable: Wigand, who says he received two telephoned death threats after he began cooperating with investigators, has been reduced to traveling with a security guard, and another guard watches over his two young daughters. His corporate career in the biomedical field, which until he worked at B&W had been on a steady upward trajectory ("I wanted to be CEO of a company," he confesses), has foundered. His marriage hit the rocks owing, he says, to the stress...
Gilchrist also says that the formation of PUCC has led to the escalation of ideological conflicts, divided between PUCC members and the "old guard...