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Unfortunately, the pious talk about home rule often disguises an uglier issue. In Bedford, N. Y., for example, a woman who opposed the UDC's low-cost housing proposal stated: "Let one of those people in, and they'll bring their whole families from Carolina!" Similarly, when other suburban communities try to exclude new residents-especially blacks-their arguments invariably evoke traditional land controls...
...they saw their country being turned into a fedayeen-Israeli battleground. Two weeks ago, the hostility erupted into two days of fighting between the guerrillas and Lebanese forces. A shaky cease-fire agreement lasted until the start of last week. Then the battles resumed, more widespread and uglier than ever...
...brushfire wars that have raged in black Africa during the early years of independence, none has been uglier or more intractable than the civil war in the Sudan. For 16 years, the 4,000,000 black Africans of the southern Sudan have been pitted against the 11 million mostly Arab northerners. An estimated 500,000 Sudanese, most of them southerners, have been killed; hundreds of grass-hut villages have been bombed, sacked and burned by the northern army and sometimes by the southern guerrillas, the Anyanya (named for the poison extracted from scorpions or cobras...
...title is still a possibility, and home ice for the ECAC playoffs seems assured, and if "Crimson is an ugly color", as a sign in the Princeton locker room stated. Harvard is determined to make it look even uglier at New Haven and Providence, and later at Boston Garden...
...Angeles junk dealer, Foxx plays a whining parent who dominates his son with phony heart attacks and other transparent but successful ruses. In last week's opening episode, there was an occasional echo of Archie Bunker's WASPy bigotry. "There ain't nothing uglier than a 90-year-old white woman," Foxx said at one point. When his son said he wanted to make a fortune "just like Aristotle Onassis," Foxx eyed his black skin and observed: "Only one difference between you and Onassis: he started out a Greek...