Word: movement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stanford activist points to the successes at Palo Alto as a harbinger for more change. Fuentes, a special assistant to San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros, graduated from Stanford last year after helping lead the movement to diversify a Western Civilization core curriculum that protestors said studied only white...
Though issues of identity perennially form the base of minority agendas, renewed attention upon it may signal the new assertiveness of ethnic groups 25 years after the height of the Civil Rights Movement. The question, frequently a subtle one for outsiders, signifies in many ways the rise of a new understanding of racism and racial insensitivity. However, different groups seek different answers for themselves...
...front is just outside Kabul. From the center of the city, it is easy to spot a series of outposts -- small, mud-walled fortresses -- on the snowy mountaintops that ring the capital. Soviet and Afghan troops man the redoubts around the clock, watching for guerrilla movement in the valleys beyond. As soon as mujahedin activity is spotted, Soviet artillery goes into action, and the boom of outgoing fire echoes through the city...
...million in loans. Six LaRouche associates also received prison sentences of three to five years and fines of $6,000 to $11,000. Soon afterward, federal prosecutors in Boston dropped obstruction of justice charges against LaRouche. Four years of investigations into the financial shenanigans of the LaRouche movement had come to an end. "This is not a political case," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Kent Robinson. "This was a case of theft...
...Bible Belt. What makes D.C.'s prayer groups special is not only their growing numbers but also the prominent political figures -- Georgia's Senator Sam Nunn, Marilyn Quayle, Susan (Mrs. James) Baker -- who are among the active members. Observes Oregon's Senator Mark Hatfield, a veteran of the movement: "People are always surprised to learn that there are spiritual people here in the Sodom and Gomorrah of politics...