Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem that can be traced back to slave days, when darker-skinned Blacks were forced to work in more strenuous jobs than lighter-skinned Blacks. For years, some Blacks have straightened their hair, lightened their skin, and more recently changed their eye color to blue or green in order to conform to the white standard of beauty. The problem has never been so clearly portrayed on screen as it was in Lee's movie...
...supported criticism of the pamphlet that complained of its explicitness. What Dukakis failed to comprehend is that the pamphlet--which made clear and detailed reference to several gay sex acts--was not meant for elderly women or junior high school students; it was carefully targeted for practicing homosexuals in order to halt the spread of the disease...
Last week the government delivered what it hoped would be the final blow. After Botha issued a ten-page enabling decree, Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok prohibited 17 leading black organizations "from carrying on or performing any activities or acts whatsoever." At the same time, he ordered the black Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), the country's largest labor federation, with more than 700,000 members, to cease all political activity, including calling for boycotts, work stoppages and the release of detainees...
...well as Latin America, officials insist that the drug merchants have been so successful at subverting law-and-order that they have superseded leftist insurgents as the main threat to the region's fragile governments. The tentacles of the narcotraficantes reach up to top officials and down to lowly policemen. With a wink and a nod from cooperative judges and prison officials, notorious narcotics peddlers have strolled out of jails in Colombia, Mexico and Bolivia. Customs and immigration officials in Costa Rica and the Bahamas look the other way as some of the hemisphere's most wanted men have walked...
...funded by the only country that can afford it, the U.S. Also needed is a more vigorous program of drug education and prevention in the country with the most abusers, the U.S. Though the drug traffickers seem to have the momentum to carry on, the forces of law-and-order are making some gains. U.S. military advisers are quietly training Colombian, Peruvian and Bolivian police units for such basic maneuvers as helicopter raids on processing plants. The Mexican military is waging a campaign to persuade farmers in poppy-growing areas to switch to other crops. "Ultimately, this is a battle...