Word: dearborn
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Dates: during 1991-1991
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...enforcing these U.N. sanctions against Iraq, while failing to press Israel to address the Palestinian problem. They are also bitter at the bigotry they have encountered since the crisis erupted. "I agree that Saddam is a ruthless dictator," says Mike Maatouk, 19, a sophomore at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, "but the end result of all this killing is that my Arab race, my people, are being pulled back 100 years. And all of a sudden every Arab person is your enemy...
...months since Iraqi tanks rumbled into Kuwait, stores and restaurants owned by Arab Americans in Los Angeles and Detroit have been set afire. Many Arab-American leaders are receiving regular death threats. At the home of a Lebanese family in Dearborn, vandals burned an Iraqi flag on the front lawn. On Jan. 19 in Blissfield, Mich., 60 townspeople helped scrub clean the walls of a Dairy Queen, owned by a Palestinian American, on which vandals had sprayed U.S.A. NO 1. Last week the Dairy Queen was burned to the ground...