Word: leader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those who tried to explain why the media failed to scrutinize Jackson were left tongue-tied. Put simply, some feared that criticism of a Black leader was comparable to condemnation of the entire race. If we criticize Jackson, thought many journalists, it might be construed as racism...
...lawyers expect such a complete transformation overnight. The campaign to provide blacks with legal defenses began after World War II, when both African National Congress President Oliver Tambo and nationalist leader Nelson Mandela began their careers as lawyers. The fact that Tambo is in exile and Mandela in prison illustrates how perilous that course was. The LRC had its origins in the aftermath of the Soweto uprising of 1976. The brutal government crackdown following the protest prompted a group of liberal lawyers and professors to try to set up a free legal-aid service for blacks. U.S. lawyer Jack Greenberg...
...measure of a leader's courage, which in the end can raise a President to greatness or terminate his political life, is far more complicated than it used to be. "Most of the Presidents we eulogize are those who acted dramatically in crisis," said Roger Porter last week. Porter is a Harvard scholar on the presidency, on loan as the President's economic-and-domestic- policy adviser, thus being granted a rare chance to witness the chemistry of leadership. "We have tended to equate success and action. We sometimes confuse action with accomplishment. A President is instantly under enormous pressure...
After Israel kidnaps a Shi'ite leader, terrorists announce the execution of one American and threaten another. George Bush works diplomatic channels and ponders a military strike, but the painful fact remains: the U.S. still has no effective way to deal with hostage taking. This time, however, there is a tantalizing glimpse of hope -- the prospect of Iran's cooperation. See NATION...
...canyon, and the only hope for rescue is the crew of a futuristic underwater oil-drilling rig working nearby. The rig's designer (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), who is the estranged wife of its master (Ed Harris), drops down to help and bicker. So does a Navy diving team whose leader (Michael Biehn) suffers a psychotic break caused by the great depths. He becomes particularly obstreperous after he recovers a warhead from the wreck...