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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Textbook content shall promote citizenship and the understanding of the free-enterprise system, emphasize patriotism and respect for recognized authority . . . Textbook content shall not encourage lifestyles deviating from generally accepted standards of society. -Proclamation of the Texas state board of education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Showdown in Texas | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

...wishes of the Catholic hierarchy, work out a formula that combined political loyalty to the Crown with spiritual loyalty to the Pope. Though the Vatican never withdrew its anathema against the Crown, this year's diplomatic recognition relegates it to history's dustbin. Catholics regained full citizenship rights in 1829, the English hierarchy was re-established in 1850, and devout Catholics were allowed to graduate from Oxford and Cambridge by 1871. In this historical context, British Catholics were as suspicious of Anglicans (not just in persecuted Ireland but throughout the British Isles) as Anglicans were of Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Pope on British Soil | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

Under the government's long-term plan for "separate development," South Africa's 20 million blacks are being designated citizens of the various new "inde pendent homelands," such as Transkei and Bophuthatswana, regardless of where they happen to live. The plan, in depriving blacks of South African citizenship, ensures that whites will be the majority group within South Africa. But that still leaves the coloreds and the Asians, who cannot be disposed of so neatly under the legerdemain of apartheid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Crack in the White Monolith | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

Indeed, some may argue that the bill does not do enough for the Amerasians. After the French left Indochina, for example, they took 25,000 Eurasians with them. And those left behind with even the slightest trace of French blood were given the option of French citizenship when they turned 21. Perhaps America should be as liberal towards Amerasians...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: A Question of Conscience | 4/10/1982 | See Source »

...attitudes of the Reagan administration are "a reincarnation of the prejudices of prior centuries that relegated women to second-class citizenship," Senator Edward M. Kennedy `54 (D-Mass.) said yesterday to a gathering of women with careers in science...

Author: By Deboran S. Kals, | Title: Kennedy Attacks Budget Cuts In Women's Science Programs | 2/13/1982 | See Source »

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