Word: groupe
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...blacks, who suffer a lung-cancer rate 58% higher than whites. Uptown's opponents won powerful support last week when Louis Sullivan, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, blasted the cigarette-marketing plan. Said he: "Uptown's message is more disease, more suffering and more death for a group already bearing more than its share of smoking-related illness and mortality." R.J. Reynolds, for its part, denounced the "unfair and biased attention" that had been focused on its product by a "small coalition of antismoking zealots...
Similar action against leaders of the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy has been threatened, although not yet taken, by prominent members of a gay Catholic group. Whereas the political leaders have been under attack for specific personal acts, the clergy is a potential target because of the church's general, institutional opposition...
...part by a series of drug-related accidents. In one of the worst, a 1987 collision of Conrail and Amtrak trains that killed 16, investigators determined that a Conrail engineer and conductor had been smoking marijuana just before the accident. So far, testing has support from an important group: the workers. In a Gallup poll released last month, a majority of adults said they favored random testing...
...English and Spanish pronunciations of his name since his grandfather, Reuben Blades, was born on the British island of St. Lucia) remains ambivalent toward the trappings of fame. One aspect of stardom that Blades finds particularly loathsome is the notion that celebrities are a privileged breed, an elite group that must insulate themselves from the rabble. Instead, the four-time Grammy nominee has tried to remain as accessible to his public as possible. Until just a few years ago, he had his home phone number printed on the back of his album covers. He abandoned the practice when his increasingly...
...Azerbaijani capital of Baku, crowds blockaded the Communist Party headquarters and the republic's television studio, while impassioned speakers called for the secession of Azerbaijan and its reunification with regions of northern Iran in a single Islamic state. Demonstrators aligned with a group identified as the National Front Defense Committee used buses and trucks to barricade streets and keep troops from entering the city. Along the southern frontier with Iran, the scene of nationalist protests earlier this month, thousands of Azerbaijanis illegally crossed to the other side and staged rallies calling for a joint struggle to liberate Nagorno-Karabakh...