Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BOSTON--Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair, who in the 1960s successfully sued to ban compulsory prayers in U.S. public schools, asked a federal court Tuesday to stop John Paul II fron celebrating a mass October 7 on the Washington Mall...
...1960s, it was the effect of enrollment expansion that the community was worried about," Brewer said, adding "people were worried that the new students were putting a real pressure on the local housing market...
...children of the free-spending 1960s and beneficiaries of an educational system fattened by large infusions of Government money, the new generation of economists benefited from the heavy Government spending that they now so fervently condemn. They are content to deny to subsequent generations similar opportunities to profit from such largesse...
...brigade's areas have been declared strictly off-limits for Cubans, it has been very difficult for the U.S. to slip in spies to gather intelligence on the spot. The brigade has a totally separate command from the Soviet advisers who have been located in Cuba since the early 1960s. Washington has long known about and accepted the fact that Cuba plays host to an estimated 2,000 Soviet military advisers, plus about 50 pilots who have been flying defense patrols for the Cuban air force. In addition, an estimated 8,000 Soviet civilians are involved in almost every aspect...
...incentive programs for workers and a plan to pay interest on small savings accounts. Castro has also dropped hints in recent months about resuming trade with the U S which had been an overpowering force in the Cuban economy until Washington imposed a total embargo in the early 1960s. Washington's reply: no deal unless Cuba withdraws its troops from Africa...