Word: movements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hostilities date back to 1965, the beginning of a six-year airlift that brought 260,000 refugees from Fidel Castro's Cuba to Miami. Just as the civil rights movement was beginning to open doors for advancement, blacks found themselves competing with the Cubans for jobs, housing and other opportunities. Since then, the number of Hispanics has more than tripled, to 825,000; they now outnumber blacks by 450,000. Cubans have become the dominant economic and political force in Miami. The city's first Cuban-born mayor, Xavier Suarez, 39, was elected...
Although Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yassir Arafat has notably moderated his language in the last few months, his movement has yet to overcome its words and deeds that reject peace. Its leaders continue to make statements that half conceal a determination to strike at the security of Israel. There can be no trust...
ARAFAT'S refusal to clearly recognize Israel makes sense in light of his (and his organization's) past statements. They all indicate what Tel Aviv analyst Asher Susser calls a "strategy of phases," in which the Palestinian liberation movement aims to take control of Israel...
...unlikely that a new state will improve Palestinian-Israeli relations and, based on most rhetoric of the Palestinian liberation movement, it would probably endanger them. But there is no alternative...
...America's college campuses. Two decades after the Love Generation traded in its tribal beads for briefcases and business suits, bigotry and prejudice are making a comeback. Underlying this ugly renaissance is a change in the nation's political climate from the idealism that spawned the civil rights movement in the 1960s to the me-first ethic that has flourished in the '80s. Many educators blame recent outbreaks of campus bigotry on the fact that today's students are largely ignorant about past struggles for racial, sexual and economic equality. "We failed to help our children learn the lessons...