Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book's student editors, a few administrators decided to play Keystone Cops," in the words of Ozment, who is also associate dean for undergraduate education. In the words of the book's student editors, a few administrators decided to censor their work, and they were powerless to resist...
...white minority government is committed to peaceful transition to a non-discriminatory system, why have they answered peaceful protest with brutal repression? They have presented Black South Africans with a clear choice: resist violent oppression with peaceful martyrdom or resist it with violence. To advocate peaceful resistance in South Africa is simply inconsistent with meaningful opposition to apartheid. The time has come to decide which violence to support in South Africa--to oppose revolution at this point is only to sanction further repression...
...Soviet world problems. Five years ago, ordinary people were joining up with Communist guerrilla movements and throwing over governments. Today there are ordinary people around the world who have taken up arms to resist Communist-imposed governments in Afghanistan, Angola, Ethiopia, Cambodia and Nicaragua. That forced them and their allies to deploy 300,000 of their troops to occupy other countries. The Soviets spend some $12 billion a year around the world to assist their allies in military and economic aid: $4 billion goes to Cuba every year, Afghanistan costs them $4 billion and Viet Nam, Cambodia, Angola, Ethiopia...
...gritty, wind-torn burg near Palm Springs, Calif., a college student is found in a canyon, burned and shot to death. Los Angeles Police Department Detective Sidney Blackpool bridles at taking a case far from his own turf, but he cannot resist the six-figure job promised by the boy's millionaire father, which would allow him to quit the force. As usual, ex-Policeman Joseph Wambaugh keeps the uniforms blue and the humor black. Blackpool has also lost a son, and the key witness is another graying officer, Harry Bright, who now lies in an apparently irreversible coma. Also...
...Coca-Cola Kid's beginning so emphatically states, this is not really a film about Coke, although the recent confusion of Coke brands makes the choice of corporation ironic. It is only partially a film about American economic imperialism, a statement which Yugoslavian director Dusan Makavejev can't resist. Mostly, this film is about Americanisms, the facades that we try to present to the outside world, and how these masks are false to ourselves as much as to others...