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Bear Poaching in North Carolina By Elaine Davenport Vol. 11, No. 4, 1989, p. 21 Hundreds of black bears are being poached in the southern Appalachian Mountains for their heads, hides, teeth, claws, feet, pads and gall bladders. “When we
Louisiana, Third World Dumping Ground By Greenpeace Vol. 11, No. 4, 1989, p. 21 Oh, for the good old days, when U.S. environmentalists and their gangs of regulators were ruining the economy by forcing well-meaning companies to take their business
He Is The Blues By Staff Vol. 11, No. 4, 1989, p. 22 Erstwhile blues guitarist Lee Atwater, a former member of the Howard University board of trustees, is the subject of a new song, “The Man Who Would B.B.
Do the Right Thing. Do the Right Thing. Spike Lee. By Steve Suitts Vol. 11, No. 4, 1989, p. 26 A scene late in Spike Lee’s movie, Do Thc Right Thing, depicts white firefighters trying to hose down the blazes
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Kovach Named Nieman Curator By Staff Vol. 11, No. 4, 1989, p. 22 Bill Kovach, the former editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, is the new curator of the Harvard-based Nieman Foundation program of journalism fellowships. Kovach was a Nieman fellow
Ruling in McKinney Surplus Property Case By Staff Vol. 11, No. 4, 1989, p. 23 A homeless support group in Huntsville, Ala., has lost a federal court action aimed at forcing the U.S. Navy to make an unused warehouse available
Affordable Housing Shortage at Crisis Stage By Staff Vol. 11, No. 4, 1989, p. 23 A growing lack of affordable housing has reached a crisis stage for blacks and Hispanics, as well as for low income Americans in general, according
Mergers in South Texas Colleges By Elaine Davenport Vol. 11, No. 4, 1989, p. 24 The largely Hispanic population of south Texas now has a better opportunity to get the same quality of higher education as Texans living in other
The Price of Empire by J. William Fulbright, with Seth P. Tillman. (Pantheon Books, 1989. xi, 243 pages. $17.95) By Leslie Dunbar Vol. 11, No. 4, 1989, pp. 27-28, 30 Radicals would do well to read this book by the
The Cold Hard Truth By J.L. Chestnut, Jr. Vol. 11, No. 4, 1989, pp. 32, 31 On a morning in the midst of the Bill Lucas furor, I completed an informal poll in the skyscraper building which houses both local