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...national epidemic of violence in greater context, there were 93 murders in Northern Ireland (home of the Irish Republican Army and Protestant para-military groups) in 1988, more than 375 in Washington. This year, the figure for D.C. may exceed...

Author: By David L. Bosco, | Title: Fundamental Rights | 11/3/1993 | See Source »

...government's policy. "The antiecology lobby is better organized than we are," says Alfredo Sirkis, head of Brazil's Green Party. "What does sustainable development mean in the Amazon? The big polluters are hiding behind these two words." In fact, a wood-pulp producer in the Amazonian state of Para has described as "sustainable development" a plan to clear-cut 5,000 hectares (12,000 acres) of virgin tropical forest and replant the area with eucalyptus trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summit to Save the Earth: Brazil's Two Faces | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

Counter suggested that "para-white ethnicgroups" who influence the media use the word"nigger" to denigrate Blacks and "to convincethemselves and other of their imagined whiteidentity." The article never specifically mentionsJews...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Counter: `Controversial Figure' | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

...article, Counter writes that a certain "para-white ethnic groups" uses the word "nigger" in order "to convince themselves and others of their imagined white identity and publicly flex their 'whiteness.'" This usage "may well be part of a much larger ethnic scheme designed to denigrate Afro-Americans..." By the way, the culprits are "Euro-American individuals and special interest groups with powerful influence in the media..." He cites several examples, such as the movie Blazing Saddles (by Mel Brooks, a Jew) as well as the use of the word "shvartza" (a Yiddish word...

Author: By Gordon Lederman, | Title: Counter Is an Anti-Semite | 4/27/1992 | See Source »

...addition, Counter has never publicly disavowed comments made in "Racial Slurs," his 1985 Crisis commentary which charged that "para-white ethnic groups" use anti-Black epithets "to convince themselves and others of their imagined white identity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Now, A Time to Heal | 4/27/1992 | See Source »

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