Word: stormings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students seized the school's main administration building in the most intense burst of campus unrest since the Viet Nam War. Hundreds of other students demonstrated outside, chanting slogans and demanding Atwater's resignation from the board. Four days after the rebellion began, with riot police threatening to storm the building, Atwater stepped down. In a Washington Post piece last week he complained that the students had distorted his record on civil rights and failed to recognize the good he could do. Wrote Atwater: "I had a lot to offer Howard...
There was no letup, meanwhile, in the political storm surrounding the nomination...
COVER: Hunted by an angry faith, novelist Salman Rushdie is at the epicenter of a storm between East and West...
...freshman year of college, after a five-year absence from running at any organized level, Rainey joined the Harvard track team as a walk-on and proceeded to take the Eastern track world by storm...
...feels abandoned by the black and white musicians who became famous by copying his style and gyrating dance techniques. He says, "The only two people who have shown love and respect for James Brown are Little Richard and Al Sharpton," the New York City preacher who stirred up a storm over the purported rape of Tawana Brawley and is now organizing a campaign to gain Brown's early release. Complains Sharpton, who sports a Brown-style hairdo: "The country would never have done this to Elvis...