Word: 1970s
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...thoughts and feelings of his own children as appropriate examples of all children, Levinson holds with the theory that men are made of the same basic stuff. If this is so his findings are valid for a larger and wider group than the northeastern, middle-aged men of 1970s America. Hobbes said it first...
However stormy the Navy's military and financial future may be, it now enjoys smoother sailing in one important area: morale. Though there are still some problems with drugs, alcoholism and a high desertion rate, the service has recovered smartly from the troubled early 1970s, when a series of violent racial clashes revealed an armed force at war with itself...
Among the most significant factors contributing to the boom in litigation throughout the 1970s is the general population's stubborn litigiousness over even the most mundane issues, coupled with either a tragic inability or an outright refusal to face and solve routine daily problems that should not even require the intervention of third parties, let alone the involvement of our judicial system...
...early 1970s, U.S. campuses were boiling with protest against the Viet Nam War. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marched on Washington. The Weatherman organization and other extremist groups set off bombs in Madison, Wis., San Rafael, Calif., and New York City, causing the deaths of at least four people. It was a time of sad and sorry crisis for the country, and the FBI was under intense pressure from both the Nixon White House and the public to stop the violence. As is now known, the bureau used illegal wiretaps, burglaries and mail thefts in searching for evidence against...
LaPrade charged that the FBI, with Carter's approval, is still conducting "warrantless investigations" similar to those of the early 1970s. Asked LaPrade: "Will another political power in Washington desire to prosecute today's actions five years from now?" LaPrade would not elaborate on his charges, but a Department of Justice spokesman indicated that he was referring to "warrantless investigations [that] are only directed against foreign intelligence or agents of foreign powers"-which is legal...