Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asylum for 14 months as a "schizophrenic." In time, the old soldier became one of the most vigorous and spirited dissenters against the current regime. Seven months ago when he arrived in Tashkent to act as counsel for ten Crimean Tartars who were on trial for civil rights activities, Grigorenko was arrested for "anti-Soviet agitation." Last week, a medical board in Tashkent decreed that he was "paranoid with symptoms of atherosclerosis" and dispatched him to another asylum-a favorite Soviet prescription for discrediting dissenters. Also reported to be held in a Soviet state institution last week: Ivan Yakhimovich, onetime...
...commission was unanimous in all but one of its nine reports. It was publicly and sharply split on the issue of civil disobedience-a strategy for achieving social justice that has divided other Americans since the birth of the Republic. A majority of seven members declared that they could not endorse a principle that may encourage anarchy. They suggested that a law should be obeyed, even if it may be unconstitutional, until a few citizens test the issue in the courts. Among the six commissioners who disagreed was Patricia Roberts Harris,* former U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg. Mrs. Harris, a Negro...
Married. The Rev. Daniel McLellan, 53, Denver-born Roman Catholic missionary priest, who while on assignment in Peru in 1960 pioneered a savings and loan association, Mutual El Pueblo, for impoverished peasants, then built it into a $14 million concern; and Ada Chirinos, 28, his Peruvian secretary; in a civil ceremony; in Lima. McLellan's resignation from the priesthood was sanctioned by the Pope, and he will stay on as president of the savings and loan association, now Peru's largest...
...only say, ask yourself who gains most. Olympias gains everything, because this match will lose her everything, if the King outlives it. Demosthenes gains the blood of the man he hates worse than death; the Athenians gain a civil war in Macedon, if we play our part, with the kingship in doubt, or passed to a boy they make light of, the more so since he's in disfavor. Darius, whose gold you want to keep even if it hangs you, gains even more...