Word: indians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When we reached the basin, I asked everyone how they felt. Aside from the expected nervousness, I learned, not only the adrenaline was flowing. More than half the Kirkland crew needed a restroom, and since Indian summer had solicited an audience of thousands, the River Charles was not an auspicious site...
...Israel has to do is return to the pre-1967 war borders by giving the Arabs the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Jerusalem--in other words, everything they want. In return, Israel would receive a guarantee of American military presence in the Sinai and the Indian Ocean. Connally was so proud of the fairness of his proposal that he made sure extra copies were distributed to Jewish organizations and communities...
DIED. Jaya Prakash Narayan, 76, Indian independence fighter who for 50 years wielded great political and moral influence in his country, though he never held public office; of heart disease; in Patna, India. Born in a small village, Narayan studied in the U.S. for seven years, supporting himself as a fruit picker while, he later said, drinking "deep at the fountain of Marxism." On returning to India in 1929, he joined Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru in the struggle to liberate India from British colonial rule and was repeatedly jailed as an agitator. After independence in 1947, Narayan was heir...
...moment. As sheaves of pages pass by, Barth concentrates these associations in several arbitrary subjects: the War of 1812, which somehow prefigures a Second American Revolution; the decline of the profession of letters; the Maryland shore, scene of most of the action; the waning of the Indian tribes; others too numerous to mention. Except for the fleeting pleasure of realizing Barth is up to something, these associations offer the attentive reader nothing but work, and the lazy, nothing...
...think there are a few things which the white people place quite a premium on. The first thing is the strong belief in a mother tongue education. Therefore they strongly believe it's in the interests of the child, be they white, black, coloured, or indian, that the children be educated through their mother tongue. In practice that means that each goes to his different school. So the schools issue is a sensitive thing although you have got mixed private schools and it came across with not too many hitches. It's a sensitive and emotional area...