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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...statistics experts use to illustrate the depth of the problem is a poll this month by the Allensbach Institute showing that sympathy for those attacking asylum seekers' lodgings has risen sharply, to 16% in western Germany and 15% in the east. Surveys have also shown a third of German youth to be openly antiforeign or inclined in that direction and about a quarter of Germans agreeing with the right-wing slogan "Foreigners...
...citizens of neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia. What little political organization the Somalis had collapsed, and the Europeans replaced it with Western centralized governments that brought the nomads their first schools, police and courts. But the colonialists also gave the Somalis a common threat to rally against. The nationalist Somali Youth League gained strength by stressing clan unity and encouraging territorial reunification...
When the country was finally liberated and reunified in 1960, the Youth League seized most of the power. Still, important posts were assigned according to clan. Leaders quickly found themselves overwhelmed, too inexperienced to run a Western democracy, too removed from the old ways to go back. They stood little chance of building a viable economy: natural resources were scarce and the land poor. Corruption, bribery and nepotism infested the bureaucracy and turned the people against a government they felt no longer represented their interests. Citizens were also embittered by continued separation from kinfolk under Kenyan and Ethiopian sovereignty...
...teaching about gay and lesbian issues, mailed out questionnaires asking 35 Midwestern school districts what assistance they provide for gay students. Only 10 responded. "Most districts want to avoid the whole topic," says Robert Birle, the organization's Midwestern-states coordinator. "But if schools get beyond looking at gay youth as the problem and look at the homophobic atmosphere instead, we'll get some positive results...
...guitar-driven sound of this band, unlike that of groups like Sonic Youth, isn't filled with distortion and feedback. Songs like "Staples," "Taillights Fade," and "Velvet Roof' are straight-forward, accessible rock...