Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...1960s and early 70s, Massachusetts law said any questions about race or religion had to be precluded," Jewett says...
...years following World War II had transformed the most terrifying diseases known to humanity -- tuberculosis, syphilis, pneumonia, bacterial meningitis and even bubonic plague -- into mere inconveniences that if caught in time could be cured with pills or shots. Like many who went through medical school in the 1960s, Dr. Bernard Fields, a Harvard microbiologist, remembers being told, "Don't bother going into infectious diseases." It was a declining specialty, his mentors advised -- better to concentrate on real problems like cancer and heart disease...
...federal panel appointed a Los Angeles attorney to investigate whether Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy illegally accepted travel, lodging and sports tickets from Tyson Foods and other companies doing business with his department. Donald C. Smaltz, a federal prosecutor in the 1960s, has a reputation as an ace in white-collar crime cases...
...charter flights by which families could visit those left behind. The moves especially distressed younger and more recent refugees who still have relatives in Cuba. But the steps were urged by the Cuban-American foundation, whose members have often had little contact with the island since the early 1960s, whose relatives have long ago immigrated, and who support anything that would hurt Castro -- regardless of the impact on ordinary Cubans...
...thinks that punishing poor Cubans and those who leave will not bring down Castro. She vents much of her anger at Clinton's crackdown on fellow exiles, who she charges are out of touch with the situation in Cuba. "Most of the Cubans in Miami came out during the 1960s. And the younger ones have never even been there. They sit here with their stomachs full, talking to each other on their portable phones. What's that have to do with Cuban reality?" But Davis lost credibility in her efforts to sway policy toward Cuba after she kissed Castro during...