Word: marches
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...brief photo opportunity. In his 1995 autobiography, In the Arena, he explains, "It was also part of my expanded persona, riding the tiger." Two years later, as president of the Screen Actors Guild, Heston was among a score of actors who attended Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington. "Our job was to get as much ink and TV time as possible," he recalls. Now, 35 years later, although his civil rights activism consists of only two appearances, he tells audiences, "I was one of the first white soldiers in the civil rights movement"--as he launches into attacks...
...tempers on both sides are exploding as the Kosovars demand full independence and Milosevic bids to bring the rebels to heel. Since March, when the Yugoslav army began an offensive against the guerrillas known as the Kosovo Liberation Army, about 300 people have died and an estimated 65,000 have been driven from their homes. When Holbrooke arrives, 50,000 Serb forces and several thousand K.L.A. fighters are skirmishing all over the province, targeting civilians in one another's villages...
Northern Ireland's churches are burning and the confrontation over a banned march is mounting, but these disconcerting developments are unlikey to wreck the Irish peace agreement. Even as Unionist and Republican leaders this week transformed their eternal battle from paramilitary in nature to parliamentary, Unionist extremists began torching Catholic churches and Republican militants responded in kind. The escalating violence followed a British-appointed commission's ruling forbidding Unionist militants from marching through a predominantly Catholic neighborhood in Portadown. The Unionists have vowed to defy the prohibition on the annual ritual, which has provoked rioting in each of the last...
...Despite the dispute over the march, the peace process this week went into high gear with former IRA fighters and Protestant paramilitaries trading quips and showing a remarkable degree of cooperation inside the new Northern Ireland assembly in spite of attempts by the Protestant opposition to destabalize it. In Northern Ireland, after all, politics have never been for the faint-hearted -- even if things do turn ugly in Portadown, the leaders committed to keeping the peace are not men easily spooked by the sight of blood...
Shanghai was the last stop on Rudenstine'stwo-weeks trip to Asia, which also included stopsin Tokyo, Seoul and the Chinese island, Xi'an.Last March, following Chinese President JiangZemin's visit to Harvard in November, Rudenstinejourneyed across Asia for the first time in hisofficial capacity, visiting Beijing, Hong Kong andTaipei...