Word: racially
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...professional public servants, the political elite of Harvard, Massachusetts and Camelot were in attendance. So were thousands of students, some on one side of the barricades gawking at celebrities, some on the other protesting the naming of the school's library after America's most effective corporate booster of racial oppression in South Africa...
...Food and Drug Administration, which is trying to establish that it has the right to investigate makers of poorly performing surgical and medical devices. He vetoed an appeal sought by the Defense Department to oppose a lower court's award of back pay and promotion in a racial discrimination case that he judged raised no new legal issues. For the most part, the final choice of cases is his alone; although the Solicitor General can be overruled by the Attorney General, he rarely is in practice...
...Hispanics replaced blacks as the largest minority in Los Angeles. They are now overhauling whites, whose share of the city population has declined from 80.9% in 1950 to a projected 44.4% in 1980. Rapid demographic swings have brought racial edginess back to Los Angeles, where the Watts ghetto riots of 1965 are still remembered with fear. Says retired Los Angeles Police Captain Rudy de Leon: "There is more outward prejudice now against Mexican people than there has ever been." Los Angeles Times Publisher Otis Chandler did not help when he noted in an interview that his paper did not court...
...single, goddamned Mexican-American institution of higher education." Actually, there are five-all small, struggling colleges, and all receiving little or no federal aid. But the point is that Nava and other Mexican Americans resent the blacks' preponderance-and that resentment does not bode well for racial harmony on the West Coast...
Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith flew to the U.S. last week in a last-ditch effort to promote his faltering bi-racial interim government with the American public, and even before leaving Salisbury, he got an unexpected boost for his cause from an old enemy. Faced with a grave fertilizer shortage that threatened famine and food shortages, Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda reluctantly announced that he would reopen his country's border with Rhodesia to permit vital imports and to allow the rail shipment of Zambian copper to ports in South Africa and Mozambique...