Word: leader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members seek to increase opportunity for members of groups that have experienced discrimination. But few students are active in forcing Harvard to take a moral stand against the most vicious racist system in the world. Every reputed Black leader has called for divestment; how many Harvard students are willing to work...
Bush has shown adeptness at other duties, as well. The former navy pilot has great potential as commander-in-chief, and he will surely enjoy his duties as the leader of his party...
...House budget leader has said that this year's fiscal woes are the result of overspending and are not due to a revenue problem, as the governor maintains. He has said that possible solutions to this year's budget crunch include short-term borrowing, a one-time tax increase or unanticipated revenue growth in the final months of the fiscal year...
...Soviet Islam, Deputy Chairman Abdulgani Abdulla recalls that "almost nobody was interested in religion" in the 1960s. Now, he reports, large numbers are becoming active believers, many of them young people. "None of the philosophies except the religious ones are able to satisfy men's needs," he maintains. The leader of the Muslim board for Transcaucasia, Allahshukur Pasha-zada, declares that until recently "freedom of conscience was on paper only." The pre-Gorbachev regimes, he says, "destroyed all the values of the people." Just a few years ago, no officials would have dared utter such words except in intimate conversations...
...they learn to speak out more freely, Muslims are trying to regain some control of religious affairs. Popular pressures led to last month's installation, with great fanfare, of a new leader for the Central Asia board. The previous head, reputed to be more adept at drinking (forbidden by Islam) and politics than study of the Koran, was ousted after an unprecedented protest march in Tashkent. His successor is Mukhammadsadyk Mamayusupov, 36, a modest and dignified scholar. At the same time as Mamayusupov's elevation, the Uzbek Republic gave his board a precious Koran dictated by Caliph Osman...