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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...losing side," he said of his defeat by a Pakistan People's Party candidate in his hometown of Sindhri. He said the Bhutto party had "succeeded very well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bhutto Triumphs in Pakistani Elections | 11/17/1988 | See Source »

...history. It is a cowardly retreat to a position of moral comfort--where it is easy to believe that the Holocaust was the creation of a single madman and his henchmen. The Holocaust was more than the sick dream of a deranged dictator--it was the cheap, dark side of collective human nature unleashed...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: Bearers of Bad News | 11/16/1988 | See Source »

...shrinking from these harsh truths rather than accepting them, we follow a well-worn path to the climate of unreasoning fear and intolerance that allows this dark side to breed and create such injustices as slavery and genocide. Only by accepting the truths of the past and understanding how they unfolded can we avoid repeating our greatest failures...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: Bearers of Bad News | 11/16/1988 | See Source »

...liberalism on campus." The implication of this statement--that because SWAT's cause is a liberal cause it is not a civil rights cause--is absurd. Liberals have long been champions of civil rights, conservatives long opponents of it. (Just take a poll of civil rights activists asking which side they're on.) It was not that conservatives of this country who championed the fight against racial discrimination. The greatest civil rights leader this country has ever seen, Dr. Martin Luther King, would surely not have seen his cause as a conservative one. The fact that the fight against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWAT | 11/16/1988 | See Source »

They are working-class good guys, they're on your side and they're losers...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: The Death of a Cleveland Brownie | 11/15/1988 | See Source »

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