Word: muslimism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black men and women checked into a Baton Rouge motel. City police soon began receiving complaints from local merchants that the group was vigorously canvassing their neighborhoods asking for contributions. Some witnesses say they represented themselves as a young artists group, while others allege that they handed out Black Muslim literature. The group also announced a street rally for early last week, to be followed by a march to city hall...
...educational system not funded by the government would further offer great varieties of approach and encouragement of innovation, in the hopes of finding new markets, NRC maintains. A parent and child could choose a "free school", a Black Muslim school, a military academy, and so on--whatever they thought best. The quality of the schools would tend to be much higher than today as well, NRC asserts, for a variant of the "performance contracting" approach would undoubtedly be adopted by most schools. Under the performance contracting system, the operators of a school are paid on the basis of improvement...
...discovered last year that sending Christmas cards was one thing I didn't have to do," says Cosmopolitan Editor Helen Gurley Brown. Others who have made the same discovery include Actress Jane Fonda (no peace on earth these days), Heavyweight Muhammad Ali (he is a Black Muslim), Actress Gloria Swanson (Christmas is too complicated as it is), Author Truman Capote ("I loathe all that rushing around and buying just because it's Christmas") and Singer James Taylor. "James probably doesn't even know when Christmas is," explains his secretary. "And if he did send out cards, they...
...reason Steiner was treated with leniency was that, in a 50,000-word confession, he freely admitted his role as the Anyanya rebels' commander in chief. The borderline area that separates the black Christian south from the brown Muslim north has become the scene of international intrigue on a grand scale, he said. He implicated, in varying degrees, CIA operatives, Peace Corps people, British intelligence, relief organizations, the Roman Catholic Church, Israel, Ethiopia and Uganda. Through his German-speaking Sudanese lawyer, Steiner pleaded that he was not a cold hired killer but a kind of khaki-clad White Knight...
...indicated to concerned "Muslim-majority states" that "we would welcome any effort on their part to encourage the Pakistan government to negotiate a political settlement...