Word: western
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paine Hall discussion for the Visions '89 Conference on Saturday, Stanford University graduate Rudy Fuentes declared that last year's mass minority protest against the school's Western Civilization requirement was not an isolated event but part of a movement toward "changing the concept of education at Stanford...
...Stanford activist points to the successes at Palo Alto as a harbinger for more change. Fuentes, a special assistant to San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros, graduated from Stanford last year after helping lead the movement to diversify a Western Civilization core curriculum that protestors said studied only white...
...line with its pledge to keep the regime well armed, Moscow has in recent weeks been sending into Kabul large shipments of weapons and ammunition, including such advanced hardware as the BTR-70 armored car and the BM-22 rocket launcher. Western diplomats in Kabul believe that in the end the resupply effort will make little difference. Says one: "They can have all the fancy hardware they like, but it is the morale of the troops that's critical...
...Stanley Kubrick and includes almost a thousand pages of essays and production memos. "We're a significant part of an as yet insignificant business," says Voyager co-founder Robert Stein. But other companies are fast picking up on his lead. MCA's pristine disc of the Anthony Mann western classic Winchester .73 contains a beguiling chat with the film's star, James Stewart. And Image's release of Platoon includes an impressive, intense interview with director Oliver Stone...
...wars they fuel in south Asia since his arrival last October. Two weeks ago, Desmond managed to fly to Kabul, the Afghan capital, which faces a turbulent future as Soviet soldiers withdraw and the rebels move in. The nine- year-old war has proved a special challenge to Western reporters who have sneaked in, flown in under fire and otherwise struggled to report a story purposely shrouded in mystery. Desmond's first trip inside the country provides a brief but penetrating glimpse at a city not yet ready to lay down the guns. "Next time I go it will...