Word: tribe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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RUSHDIE GOES farther than simply presenting the straight "party line," however. He comes across as an apologist for Managua. For example, he announces that the Sandinistas can be excused for their past repression of the Miskitos because that tribe, he claims, bullied its neighbors. Yet even the Sandinistas admit their guilt on this matter. Rushdie makes excuses for past Sandinista excesses which now even they find inexcusable...
Like Falwell, the members of PTL's new board are no strangers to controversy. James Watt resigned as Ronald Reagan's Interior Secretary after offending several minority groups, and was recently fired by a Native American tribe that claimed his work as its lawyer was inept. Evangelist Bailey Smith, while president of the Southern Baptist Convention, gained brief notoriety by declaring, "God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew." Retired Televangelist Rex Humbard was once rebuked by the Securities and Exchange Commission for selling unregistered securities, and was taken to task in the press for spending too much...
Attention is likely to remain focused on Sofaer, if only because in arguing the ABM case he has raised an unprecedented challenge to the Senate. Sofaer has claimed that nothing the Administration tells the Senate during the & ratification process is binding, a view that Professor Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law School says "would give the Senate a meaningless role in treaty ratification." When Biden sputtered, "That's incredible. That's absolutely staggering," Sofaer mumbled, "I'd like to talk to you about that." Thundered Biden: "We will...
When a judge ruled in the tribe's favor in February, Wambui Otieno obtained an order blocking the burial pending an appeal this month. Wangari Mathai, chairman of Kenya's National Council of Women, last week gathered signatures for a petition that calls on parliament to safeguard the rights of surviving spouses...