Word: ladonna
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite some changes, federal authority is still extensive, and LaDonna Harris, a Comanche activist who was married to Oklahoma's former Democratic Senator Fred Harris, says the result has been a "long era of unilateral decision making by Euro-American 'experts' on the needs of Indian people." The Indians, whose civilization was based on consensual democracy, were pushed toward the contentiousness of majority rule, without most of the rights that go with it. In 1924 Congress granted citizenship and the vote to all Indians. But it was not until 1968 that Congress extended guarantees of free speech and due process...
...cast springs from that circle where commerce, show business and crime are hard to separate. Casino Manager Jackie Garbo likes to impress visitors with his autographed celebrity photos. Bodyguard Moosleh Hajim Jabara strains parody as an Ethiopian-born retired pro-football player who changed his name to DeLeon Johnson. LaDonna Holly Padgett is a former Miss Oklahoma and Miss Congeniality well on her way to such titles as Miss Cordial and Miss Bloody Mary. The rub-out of a Mafioso in the mandatory spaghetti joint summons up the sensible suggestion, "You'd think those guys'd learn to eat some...
...Frances ("Sissy") Farenthold of Texas, who won 404 Democratic delegate votes in 1972 but was beaten by Thomas Eagleton. The small parties that occupy the fringes of American politics have been more willing to support women. In 1980 there were seven nominations for the No. 2 spot, including LaDonna Harris as vice-presidential choice of the Citizens Party and Angela Davis as that of the Communists. Such gestures, however, remained little more than that...
...coupons gratis, as if the dailies would be performing a public service, but some journalists balked. "It absolutely reeks of arrogance," said David Easterly, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution. "I wonder how much the guy and the people around him think of his fans." One eleven-year-old fan, Ladonna Jones of Dallas, dashed off a letter to Michael that she passed along to the Dallas Morning News: "How could you, of all people, be so selfish?"How could you of all people, be so selfish...
...center stage at a brief press conference in Kansas City. Dressed in spangled glove, dark shades, sequined band jacket and one of the red ceremonial sashes that make him look like a cultural ambassador from Sesame Street, he announced in a voice frayed by nerves that he had seen Ladonna Jones' letter. Therefore, he was asking the promoters to figure out another, fairer way to sell tickets, and he was donating his tour earnings to charity. He took no questions from the floor, just hotfooted it out of the place and back, properly, to where he belonged, waiting...