Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...states this is not an issue. At the same time, it would undermine the enforceability of the existing law in the South by eliminating the advance Justice Department review of new voting statutes required under the 1965 act. Regarded as a sop to white Southerners who have long opposed civil rights legislation aimed solely at their region, the measure has alienated not only Negroes but a number of important members of Nixon's own party. Ohio's William McCulloch, the House Judiciary Committee's senior Republican, expressed the depth of the disaffection when he said that...
Ever since his disclosures, Fitzgerald -who was nominated by the Air Force in 1967 for a Distinguished Service Award-has labored in a kind of Pentagon purgatory. His civil service status, routinely given any appointee at his level after three years of service, was revoked because of "a computer error." He says that his mail is being opened. One letter even bore the initials and stamp of the "action officer" who had opened it. He still toils quietly in the same windowless, fifth-floor office. Instead of monitoring the costs of the multibillion-dollar...
...millionaire trader, Tshombe emerged on the world stage when the Congo became an independent country. Patrice Lumumba, the Congo's charismatic first Premier, wanted strong central government. Tshombe, speaking for the copper-rich province of Katanga, demanded a loose federation. The disagreement started a civil war that raged for 29 months, required 30,000 United Nations troops to settle, and was notable for rape, pillage and bloody atrocities. Lumumba was murdered-a U.N. commission suspected Tshombe of complicity-and Tshombe was exiled and 'then recalled to become Premier, only to be exiled once more...
...Jackson, Miss., an NBC affiliate. The reason: racial discrimination in programming. The station, owned by the Lamar Life In surance Co., had been accused of permitting racial slurs on the air, excluding news of Jackson's 40% Negro population and cutting off network news reports of civil rights activities...
...Poussaint specializes in the study of the black power movement and white workers in the civil rights movement. Last April, Dr. Poussaint spoke out against psychiatry's failure in the black community...