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...notice a big change when they read the sports pages. Starting this week, the state's largest daily (circ. 354,000) will no longer publish the names or nicknames of sports teams that employ racial or ethnic stereotypes, such as the Braves, Redskins, Indians and Redmen. Instead it will refer only to the cities or states where they play...
...true. Would Americans be upset if, say, Canadian investors offered to buy the Seattle Mariners? Probably no more than they are that Canadians already own the Montreal Expos and the Toronto Blue Jays. Says Linda Cunningham, editor of the Rockford, Ill., Register-Star: "There is an increasing willingness to refer to the 'Japs,' and to talk openly about things that might have been said only privately in their own living rooms. There now seems to be a respectability attached to a subtle return of racism...
...label images like the above are not dehumanizing prejudices but quick ways of describing the general character of a group. No one claims they accurately represent every individual or that they are the last word on the groups to which they refer...
Under the policy, applications from relatives of board members or other government officials must be reviewed by the chairman of ACOG's Compensation and Executive Resources Committee. The chairperson must approve the application or refer it to the full committee, payne said...
...victims' coffins, draped with E.C. flags during a memorial service in Zagreb's cathedral the next evening, were a bleak reminder that peace will not come easily to Yugoslavia after six months of civil war. The federal military was quick to refer to "an unwanted and tragic event," and the Serb- controlled federal government offered requisite apologies. But a shake-up in the top military command solidifying Serb dominance led to fresh worries that the army might not fully support the cease-fire. As the U.N. dispatched observers over the weekend to monitor the fragile peace, the truce appeared...