Word: wings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...referendum last year, the right wing polled no less than 800,000 votes. In addition, they have got a substantial section of the civil service, the police force, the army, which support them. Now they have said if the A.N.C. wins the elections and establishes the government, they will take up arms. That is the threat facing us. It's a serious threat, but we aren't overly concerned. We have to reorganize the police force and make sure it is capable of defending democracy...
...speech Hackney "very much stands up for complaints from the left but not from the right." In April almost all 14,000 copies of the Daily Pennsylvanian were taken and destroyed by black students protesting "blatant . . . perpetuation of institutional racism" by the newspaper -- specifically the views of a right-wing columnist -- and the university at large. The paper declared it was "betrayed" by Hackney's reaction, a bland statement that "two important university values, diversity and open expression, seem to be in conflict...
...right-wing opposition to her nomination gathered force, the Administration tended to dismiss the criticism as no serious threat to confirmation. At that point, however, the White House would have needed to mount a concerted campaign to get Senate support for Guinier or cut her loose quickly. But the White House, distracted by troubles with its budget package, dithered. The Administration failed even to introduce Guinier to Senators, a job black lawyer and former Transportation Secretary William Coleman took upon himself to do. Such neglect hardened Guinier's resolve and sense of independence. By the time Clinton realized Guinier...
Strong denies the existence of left wing intolerance at Harvard. "There is a general liberal respect between the left and right," he says. "Harvard's not as bad as they [conservatives] make it out to be. They look for straw figures, and raise more alarm than there really is cause...
...ultra-right-at Harvard is overrepresented due to the media and sensational views of the ultra right," Strong says. "Newspapers engage in a feeding frenzy over the right wing...