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...largest concerns was that it would worsen the climate in this country for teaching about the Soviet Union to future generations," said Susan Alexander, executive director of Educators for Social Responsibility, a member of the coalition. "However, I think what's happening instead is that it's generating a very healthy, needed discussion in the country about our national attitude towards the Soviet Union in a nuclear world," she said...
...Bachrach campaign took the largest number of awards at the banquet, which feted veterans of this year's many Democratic campaigns. According to Grossman, "I would've rather won the election than the award, but I was pleased anyway ...My campaign associates assure me that Joe Kennedy won't receive a similar honor...
...murder of a black teenager by six U.K.A. members, the jury awarded damages of $7 million to the mother of Michael Donald, who was beaten, strangled and hung from a tree. Anti-Klan experts say the huge fine could dismantle the complex financial network of the U.K.A., the oldest, largest (2,500 members) and most secretive of the various Klan groups. More important, in the words of Klanwatch Director Bill Stanton, the verdict sets a "precedent to seek damages from the corporate Klan behind the perpetrators" of racial incidents...
...Burda Moden magazine, the world's largest fashion monthly (est. circ. 2.5 million), the year's trendiest color is without a doubt red. West Germany's rough equivalent of Vogue is about to become the first capitalist fashion journal to publish a Russian-language Soviet edition. Burda's initial 100,000- copy Soviet offering, with advertisements from such upscale firms as American Express, Cartier and Adidas, will hit Moscow newsstands on March 3. Says Manfred Made, director of the magazine's parent publishing house: "We are thinking in long terms. We believe that the Soviet market will be of immense...
...incredible $10.5 billion to settle their legal battle over a 1984 merger fight, many experts were convinced that the landmark judgment would be drastically reduced on appeal. But so far Texaco's lawyers have been unable to defuse this financial time bomb that threatens the survival of the third largest U.S. oil company. A Texas court of appeals last week upheld a staggering $8.5 billion of the original judgment...