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...more visible results of the controversy is that it rekindled the passions that had been damped for decades. At the 16th Street Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr. organized demonstrations during the 1960s, throngs of demonstrators waving placards that read RACISM WILL NOT PREVAIL, WE SHALL OVERCOME and RACISM IS CORRUPTION were led in old movement anthems by grizzled civil rights veterans like Woods and the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth. They hoped they were writing a new chapter in an old book. "We put it together once," roared Shuttlesworth to stamping applause, "and we can put it together again." Blacks...
...could also set a precedent that would affect the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Bonifaz points out, nothing, "It's a clear opportunity for undergraduates to seek redress [for minority hiring complaints] if we prevail...
...National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) are at war no more. But they also realize that the long-term outlook for the country is dismal. The peace treaty signed last week in Mexico City, which goes into effect Feb. 1, is no guarantee that El Salvador's 5.4 million people can prevail in the other battle that they have been steadily losing -- the one against poverty and hopelessness...
...problem with Saddam was not his military might -- the President never doubted that the U.S. had the power to prevail in combat -- but the possibility that the Iraqi leader might withdraw from Kuwait at the last minute, keeping his menacing army and maniacal intentions intact. "I mean, this was worrying me," says Bush. "What happens if he does just haul all this armor back along the border, unpunished, unrepentant, faced down by what he knows is a superior army...
Which does not by any means ensure that the commonwealth will prevail, or even get itself truly organized. Its founding charter is not much more than a vaguely worded statement of intent. Its members must now actually define the policies they will pursue and form mechanisms to ensure that they really are coordinated. The alliance -- it is not really a state -- was not even a week old before its first potentially serious fissure appeared. While Yeltsin assured Soviet military leaders that the armed forces would remain under unified command, Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk proclaimed that all army units...