Word: reported
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last Tuesday, officers investigating a report of gunfire only two blocks from one of the Panthers' original headquarters found him dying in the street. On Friday police arrested a suspected drug dealer, who told them he shot Newton in self-defense after they argued over a cocaine sale. Investigators found no gun near Newton's body...
...Otto Friedrich, who remembers the day of the invasion clearly. "I was ten years old and sat glued to the shortwave radio in the living room of my father's farm in Vermont, trying to get news of the air raids," he recalls. Assembling the pictures for the report, which was designed by Arthur Hochstein, Mary Dunn found a set of stills taken of Hitler that showed him honing his speech gestures; a picture from that extraordinary series illustrates the profile of Hitler in this issue...
Throughout these ugly years, though, the majority of Germans seemed fairly content with their New Order. "The Nazi terror in the early years affected the lives of relatively few Germans," recalled William Shirer, author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, who went to report on Germany in 1934, "and a newly arrived observer was somewhat surprised to see that the people of this country did not seem to feel that they were being cowed and held down by an unscrupulous and brutal dictatorship. On the contrary, they supported it with genuine enthusiasm. Somehow it imbued them with...
...white flag from the period of independence between the two World Wars waves again above Tallinn's Toompea Castle. Latvia has hoisted its traditional crimson-and-white banner above Riga Castle. In Lithuania the historic yellow- green-and-red tricolor flutters once more from Gediminas Tower in Vilnius. A report from each of the Baltic republics...
These bleak statistics persist despite several decades of intense effort to attract and retain minority students. According to a study released last month by the American Council on Education, 8 out of 10 colleges and universities report either "a lot" or "some" activity aimed at boosting minority undergraduate enrollment on their campuses. At the same time, 60% give themselves only "fair" or "poor" success ratings in attracting black students; two-thirds give equally low grades for Hispanic recruitment...