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July 1985 In a letter to then-Senate Majority Leader Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.) and then-Senate Minority Leader Robert C. Byrd (D-W. Va.), Harvard President Derek C. Bok urges that the United States place sanctions on South Africa for refusing to dismantle apartheid...
Apparently, leaders are starting to realize that this is the situation the world faces in Bosnia. Pressure for military action is mounting from various fronts, including the United States Congress. Senators Robert Dole (R-Kan.) and Joseph Biden (D-Del.), two influential leaders, have called for air strikes to halt the Serbian onslaught...
...Philip Kan Gotanda, a well-known Japanese-American playwright, writes that the prejudice Asian-Americans face is more subtle than that facing Blacks and Latinos. Particularly now, he said in a recent interview in the Los Angeles Times, Asian-Americans are left out of the mainstream culture. They are in a "double bind" where they are cast as "'insidious' at the same time there's this feeling of knowing them. You get the worst of both worlds...
...reading from a script, Perot cheerleaders from every corner of the nation echoed Toda last week. "If you ever were in here, you would find everybody," says Bonnie Wendel, a campaign worker in Topeka, Kan. "I see a welder, a consultant, a bank worker, people with real estate, unemployed people, a man in the race car bus. Very few of them have ever been involved in politics before...
None of these perfervid cultural make-overs, however, has driven the music itself to any heights of personal expression. "Chemical material don't you shudder?/ Something awful is happening we don't suspect" is one kick-butt refrain from Takagi Kan's Hip Hip Fork. "We can't control MSG/ Our tongue has become paralyzed." Takagi declares that his song is mainly "about MSG companies trying to make a lot of money in Asia," though there seems little risk that he will get boiled as Ice T did in America over his Cop Killer track...