Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...host to thousands of spectators. After deciding in December that the four-hour plane trip from Melbourne was too time consuming, Dunn and his assistant, Di Webster packed their files and computers onto the Indian-Pacific train and opened a new office 1,700 miles away, in a Fremantle town house a few hundred yards from the marinas...
...bright, crisp Midwestern day in 1997, and the small-town parade could be something out of Ronald Reagan's childhood scrapbook. Main Street is lined with townspeople applauding as the baton twirlers, marching bands, basketball squads and quilting clubs make their way past. But the clapping abruptly stops as some bright red banners come into view. Adorning them are the faces of two heroes from history: Abraham Lincoln and Lenin...
...interview last night, Graham said she expects the CRB to set a precedent for other New England communities. The town of Newton has already expressed interest in creating a similar board, she said...
Graham said that while previous strong interestin a civilian review board had existed, "there hadnever been enough votes to get it through untilthe police decided to round up every Black kidthat they saw and arrest eight of them for a crimethat was committed in another part of town...
...Washington, D.C., for instance, some 70 percent of the inhabitants are Black, but the only major newspaper in town is white-owned and the most affluent neighborhoods are white. The Black slums of D.C. have no white counterparts. It doesn't even seem to matter much that the mayor and the chief of police are Black...