Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There's no reason to rush off a statement (on South Africa), and it could hurt us," Carl Rosen '80, a representative who is an active member of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), said yesterday. "I'm hoping the assembly won't try to take over the issue. The SASC and the United Front can hold their...
...founder of the McDonald's hamburger chain, has been bedeviled by a rumor that he donates money to the Church of Satan, a San Francisco-based cult. "The most vicious thing I've ever heard and all lies," sputters Kroc. Nonetheless, on many fundamentalist Christians in the Southern and Midwestern Bible Belt, the rumor has had the impact of a Big Mac attack in reverse: they are boycotting McDonald's. So far, the protests have had a negligible effect, but just to make sure, McDonald's Executive Doug Timberlake last week told a conference of about...
...respectively, a Sunni and a Shi'ite Muslim. The precarious balance between religious groups fell apart in 1970, when 15,000 well-armed Palestinian guerrillas were driven out of Jordan by King Hussein's "Black September" offensive. Joining 75,000 Palestinians already in the country, they turned southern Lebanon into a staging area for raids on Israel...
...Cottonreader, national field director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), arrived in Decatur the same day Mims took over as Hines' lawyer. Cottonreader immediately tried to mobilize Decatur blacks for marches and protests. The first protest took place in Decatur a week later with approximately 150 marchers--a large number for the hot, humid, early summers that come to Alabama. Singing the songs of the old civil rights days, the marchers harmonized in a rendition of "We Shall Overcome" as they walked on, braving the heat, stares from reporters and curious faces. The group, composed of mostly young people...
Tomorrow, The Kennedy School, which attempts to teach its students to deal with political reality, will have to confront some political reality itself: protest. The Southern Africa Solidarity Committee and the Black Students' Association will demonstrate against the School's acceptance of Engelhard money which was made by exploiting black miners. It could perhaps be called a lesson in applied ethics...