Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Earth Corps is the inspiration of James Pinkerton, the 31-year-old Deputy Assistant to the President for Policy Planning. Pinkerton did not begin by thinking about trees, but rather about the wreckage of America's inner cities and the prospects that face young black males. Looking for an approach to the problem, he considered the way that the Army, at its best, trains people -- teaches them discipline, teamwork and such values as courage, honor, strength, loyalty, pride. The experience, when all goes well, can transform lives. The welfare system institutionalizes an abject status quo and produces generations of angry...
...great friend," someone he would trust to race to Bangkok in an emergency. Such sentiments sound saccharine, but Safire's friends tend to remember gifts he gave them 30 years ago. For Barbara Walters, who worked with him in p.r. in the late 1950s, it was a black, shorty nightgown -- presented not as a romantic gesture but to twit her for being too prim. "Bill was saying, in effect, 'Loosen up,' " she recalls. Safire was introduced to Helene in 1962 by motion-picture executive Edward Bleier. After a whirlwind wedding, Safire presented Bleier with a silver matchbox engraved...
...educational hawks complained that Bush, eager to maintain warm relations with the politically powerful education lobby, had fixed on aims far too modest to have much effect on the crisis in the classroom. No one, of course, could argue against raising graduation rates -- especially in inner cities with large black and Hispanic populations. But overall, 84% of young Americans already earn a high school diploma or its equivalent by age 24. How ambitious is it, then, to set a goal...
...tensely awaited speech, De Klerk last week went a long way toward accepting the demands listed by black opposition groups as conditions for the start of talks on a new constitution. Most important, he promised to release the world's most famous prisoner, Nelson Mandela, now in his 28th year of imprisonment, though he did not say when. De Klerk legalized more than 60 banned organizations, lifted emergency restrictions on the press and on 374 political activists, suspended executions and put a six-month limit on detentions without trial. He also promised to lift the remaining elements of the state...
...fears of upheavals in the townships and possible attempts on Mandela's life by extremists from left or right, for which the government would inevitably be blamed. It is also possible that De Klerk is still hoping for a formal renunciation of violence from the A.N.C. In any case, black leaders seemed confident that Mandela would be free in a matter of weeks...