Word: civile
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elderly white veteran of civil rights struggles couldn't believe her ears. She wanted to outlaw Nazi demonstrations, but the consensus at the workshop on "Fighting the New Right" was against her. And featured speaker James Farmer, black activist from the '60s, declared, "The Klan has a right to march and should be protected." After the meeting Farmer patiently argued with the woman and just as patiently reassured a young, blind Jewish man about relations between blacks and Jews. These days, Farmer, tall, stout and barrel-chested with an eyepatch and a sympathy for Moshe Dayan, often finds himself cast...
...Yasser Arafat sent two emissaries, including a close military adviser, Saed Say el (also known as Abu Walid), to Tehran. The State Department said that it welcomed assistance and recalled that the P.L.O. had helped arrange the evacuation of several hundred Americans from Beirut in 1976 during the Lebanese civil war. The Administration was reluctant to depart from U.S. policy toward the P.L.O., namely, that it will not recognize or negotiate with the organization until it acknowledges Israel's right to exist. From the Administration's viewpoint, however, the safety of the hostages was more important than giving the P.L.O...
...related incidents, compared with eight in all of 1978. They included cross burnings, beatings and firebombings. A Klansman was convicted of whipping a white woman from Sylacauga, Ala., who he thought was dating a black man. In Birmingham, Klansmen were convicted of shooting at the houses of two black civil rights leaders...
...enforcement officials and civil rights leaders are increasingly alarmed about the Klan, but they do not know what to do about it. Because of new federal restrictions designed to protect civil rights, the FBI no longer keeps as close watch on Klan activities as it once did. Says an FBI official: "We now cannot infiltrate them just because they are standing on a street corner and shouting, no matter how violent or antisocial their rhetoric." Other observers are persuaded that Klan strength will decline only when the people who are now attracted to it get a bigger share...
...Federal Reserve action, the prime interest rate paid by top corporations has jumped another 2% beyond its previously record heights to reach 15½%, and bankers believe that it may go still higher. Interest rates on Government bonds have leaped above levels prevailing at the outbreak of the Civil War, when Confederate forces were encamped at Manassas, ready to march on Washington. The Dow Jones index of industrial stocks since early October has slumped nearly 100 points and closed last week...