Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before coming to the University, Bowron served as director of the North Carolina Museum of Art and worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Walters Art Gallery inBaltimore and the Nelson Atkins Museum in KansasCity...
...stomach pains to flashbacks and suicidal thoughts. Victims of Hurricane Hugo, which lashed the Southeastern U.S. last month, are showing the expected strains. "About all of the people we talk to have sleep disturbances," says Dr. James Ballenger, head of the psychiatric institute at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. "They are constantly fatigued. They leave briefcases at home. They forget appointments. They cannot concentrate...
What can a hate group do to clean up its dirty image? The Reidsville klavern of North Carolina's Ku Klux Klan thought it had come up with a tidy answer: it offered to join the state's Adopt-a-Highway program, under which 5,000 civic and social organizations have agreed to keep 10,000 miles of state highways clear of litter. At least four times a year, the Klansmen would exchange their white robes for orange vests and pick up trash along three miles of U.S. 158, east of Reidsville. In return, a sign noting their good deeds...
...offer that North Carolina's department of transportation found too good to accept. "The Klan is atypical of the groups that have been involved with the program," explained James Sughrue, a DOT official. No other volunteers, except a cub-scout pack considered too young to be on the roads, had been turned down for the highway-cleanup project. Rockey Chapman, head of the klavern, admitted he wanted "that sign to advertise my group." He asked the state branch of the American Civil Liberties Union to sue for a reversal of the rejection. The A.C.L.U. was expected...
...could be expected, ultra-conservative Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina lambasted the Administration's timidity, deriding Bush's entourage as the "Keystone Kops" and denouncing a "total lack of planning." More surprising were the Democrats who lined up to criticize the Administration's caution: in the past, many of them had espoused anti-interventionist sentiments in Nicaragua and toward the Navy escorts of Kuwaiti oil tankers during the Iran-Iraq war. Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts called the episode "a black mark on our diplomacy and our values." Congressman Les Aspin of Wisconsin declared, "We should...