Word: pan
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SPOIL SPORTS. The State and Treasury Departments have pulled the plug on ABC's plan to televise the 1991 Pan American Games in Cuba, contending the broadcasts would violate the U.S. ban on commerce with Fidel Castro's island. While Cuba could lose $9 million in fees from ABC, a bigger loser might be Atlanta. City officials fear a backlash against the U.S. could damage its bid to host the 1996 Olympics...
...that Israel lacks legitimate security concerns ignores a history of terror against innocent civilians as recent as recent news that the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine was responsible for the downing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. This incident brings the death toll of innocent Americans, including a Harvard graduate aboard that flight, at the hands of the Intifada higher than that of innocent Palestinians, though one must note the over-whelming majority of innocent Palestinians killed in the Intifada are killed by Palestinians following Yassir Arafat's prompting that any Palestinian who "thinks of stopping...
Other, more radical activists of the Pan-Africanist Congress, which is also banned, reject talks altogether. Jafta Masemola, a P.A.C. leader released with Sisulu, said, "We cannot negotiate with the usurpers of our land." While most black leaders agree that De Klerk has set off in a new direction, they remain skeptical because of the destination he has in mind. De Klerk's policy, fully endorsed by the ruling National Party, is one of constitutionally guaranteed "group rights" defined by race, including the right of whites to veto legislation they might consider threatening, to live in whites-only neighborhoods...
...Cohn '91 Susan B. Glasser '90 Spencer S. Hsu '90 Joseph R. Palmore '91 Editorial Editor: Joshua M. Sharfstein '91 Features Editor: Ross G. Forman '90 Sports Editor: Michael D. Stankiewicz '90-'91 Photo Editor: Gavin R. Villareal '90 Business Editor: Michael S. Harwayne '91 Copy Editor: Philip P. Pan...
...team of photographers (and like Brady, took credit for their work). Shooting in gloomy alleys and sunless rooming houses, he and his colleagues became pioneers of flash-lit photography -- a delicate undertaking in those days when the newly invented magnesium flash powder had to be poured into an open pan and then ignited with a flaming bang. "Twice I set fire to the house with my apparatus," Riis later recorded calmly, "and once to myself...