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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Nieman Fellow Fleur de Villiers possesses the poise and verbal dexterity of Margaret Thatcher. She inhales quickly from her everpresent cigarette and speaks with deliberation...

Author: By Linda S. Drucker, | Title: Journalism in Africa: Chronicling Turmoil......And Defining the 'Opposition Press' | 10/15/1980 | See Source »

...squad of plainclothes detectives seeking a drug suspect burst into the home of Nathaniel La Fleur, a respected black Miami schoolteacher. Although La Fleur protested loudly that the police had the wrong house, the officers beat both the teacher and his son Hollis, 20. Dade County State Attorney Janet Reno, who had once earned black respect as a liberal sympathetic to their complaints, failed to secure an indictment from a grand jury. She said the police had made "a dumb mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Fire and Fury in Miami | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

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