Word: jessee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"You all know that our fellow Alann Steen is dying." The speaker on the videotape was Jesse Turner, one of four Beirut University instructors taken hostage in January by a pro-Iranian Shi'ite faction known as the Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine. He was referring to a...
-- At Northern Illinois University, white students in a pickup truck yelled slurs at blacks attending a speech by the Rev. Jesse Jackson; an unauthorized N.I.U. student magazine printed sick poetry ("O.K.,/ Look nigger,/ We are white./ White is supreme./ Jesus was white./ God is white./ All of our Presidents have...
Only Jesse Jackson preaches the old-time religion, a classic populism of the left. Trying to expand his coalition of the dispossessed, middle-class workers and distressed farmers, Jackson calls unashamedly for large increases in programs for education, health and public housing.
These themes are being stressed by Democratic candidates, including Gary Hart, Bruce Babbitt, Joseph Biden, Richard Gephardt and Jesse Jackson. "When Rhodes scholars are arrested for insider trading, that contributes to this populist sentiment that a privileged class is getting rich at the expense of the rest of the economy...
BEIRUT, Lebanon--American hostage Jesse Turner said on a videotape yesterday that fellow American captive Alann Steen is dying, and he urged the United States and Israel to accept the terms for Steen's release.