Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teens was apprenticed to a carpenter. His chairs and tables regularly collapsed, however, and he was fired. By his early 20s, Li had joined the party and soon won a reputation for unquestioning loyalty to Mao Tse-tung and for his talent at organizing effective guerrilla bands. After the civil war ended in 1949, Li rose steadily in the party's central China hierarchy. In 1954, he was summoned to Peking as Minister of Finance...
Criminal cases involving indigents make up only ten per cent of CLAO's caseload. Lankton said. The rest of CLAO's work-which includes mostly civil cases-is wholly funded by a grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity. The CLAO staff includes five lawyers and 100 volunteer law students...
...breakdown in the talks as a pretext for launching a military strike against China. A war scare also serves Mao's domestic interests. Though 15 months ago he called an official halt to the disruptive Cultural Revolution that had brought the country to the verge of civil war, China remains wracked by internal dissension and severe economic troubles. Mao undoubtedly hopes that China's xenophobic feelings about the Russians will serve as a unifying force in the country. He is also using the war scare as justification for one of his favorite and most controversial policies: to toughen...
...about the condition of political prisoners, like the writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, together with their labor-camp addresses. Top KGB investigators, prosecutors and judges who are involved in important political cases are identified by name for the record. The avowed purpose of the Chronicle is to secure civil rights for Soviet citizens within the letter and spirit of the constitution. Summaries of recent items...
...came into this world with nothing," says Herman W. Ryals, a retired civil service worker, "and it looks as though that's the way I'm going to leave it." His lament is becoming familiar among the thousands of Gulf Coast victims of last August's Hurricane Camille. Nothing remains of the crippled Ryals' modest frame home near the beach at Gulfport, Miss., and he and his wife now live in a leased trailer on their hurricane-stripped lot. His insurance company offered to pay only 25% of his claim, says Ryals, so he has hired...