Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many of the alterations in the disputed transcripts were made, legitimately, at the request of the members involved. But some Republicans charged that they had not been informed of revisions made in their remarks. G.O.P. Whip Trent Lott of Mississippi complained of "a pattern and a practice of malicious misconduct aimed at discrediting and defaming members of this House." Republicans tried to force the House into establishing a special committee to pursue the matter of the doctored transcripts in public hearings. But on a largely party-line vote last week, the Democrats succeeded in having the matter referred...
...little more than 20 years ago, the national limelight was focused on the University of Mississippi as the turf for one of the greatest battles in American civil rights history, and on James Meredith as the leading soldier of the integration confrontation. Recently, in one of those neat historical coincidences, the incident, the institution, and the individual have all separately edged their way back into the news, and the combination has added an important perspective to the bold victory that was claimed in the fall of 1962 and how things have changed since...
...would be overblown to call Meredith or the University of Mississippi symptoms, but because they were representative of the civil rights battles of the early 60s, they can be considered some sort of symbols of the fallout 20 years later. They make it clear that the progress made in the preliminary years of the movement was incomplete and not without some cost to those involved. Jacob M. Schlesinger
...little tired of all those Japanese success stories. What we've done here shows you can have American success stories as well." As a sign of that success, the 100 Club has been phased in at Diamond's three other fiber-product plants in Mississippi, California and New York...
...Handsome opens with two pieces from Airships (1978), Hannah's highly praised collection of short stories. The first, Return to Return, retells the gothic catastrophe of French Edward, a good-looking tennis pro who discovers his mother in bed with his supposedly homosexual coach, nearly drowns in the Mississippi River and is fished out with most of his mental capacities washed away. He lives on as an automaton who is still a terror on the courts. The second reprised story, Midnight and I'm Not Famous Yet, deals chiefly with Captain Bob Smith of the U.S. Army...