Word: indians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even for those born long after San Francisco's great 1906 earthquake and fire, it had become a habit to recall the warm, breezy conditions during that cataclysm. Looking out a window from her home in suburban Sunnyvale, Neta Lott remarked to her husband Byron that the Indian-summer evening of Oct. 17 seemed like "darned good earthquake weather." Moments later, the shaking and rolling began. Byron, an electrical engineer, fell to the floor. Neta tried to get up but remained pinned to her chair until she rolled onto the floor. "I sat under the desk and thought I would...
...Harvard Indian Law Symposium, described by Law School Dean Robert C. Clark as "one of the most important events at the Law School this year," attracted about 60 students, Native American rights advocates and legal academics...
...incredible turn out," said Troy M. Woodward, a member of the Harvard chapter of the national American Indian Law Students Association (AILSA), which sponsored the symposium. "We have about 40 law students from other states...
...generation has seen too many victories incourt fade away to believe in the magic ghost ofcase law," said Strickland. "You can't survive asan Indian people even if you have all the caselaw...
...significant civilian power base among Panama's nonwhite majority. It stems from his image as the protector of la revolucion, the shift in political power led by Omar Torrijos Herrera, who seized control of the military in a coup 21 years ago. A cholo (a Spanish-American Indian), Torrijos gave fellow cholos, blacks, Chinese and other nonwhites new influence, both within the military and in the government. This broke the traditional monopoly held by the country's wealthy class of European descendants...