Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the U.S. has a strong second-strike capability in the event of a Soviet attack and, intriguingly, a strong ability to survive such an attack in the first place. Earlier in the week, Carter appeared to reverse a decade-old U.S. nuclear policy by placing new emphasis on civil defense, which has been thoroughly neglected since the bomb-shelter days of the 1960s. The President ordered all civil defense preparations brought under a new government body, the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The move would upgrade preparedness to protect the civilian population in a nuclear attack; the Soviets have given...
...concerns of both Bakke's supporters and his detractors. The decision legitimates the use of racially sensitive criteria in an admissions process, upholding the judgment of Justices Brennan, White, Marshall and Blackmun. They argue that the use of such criteria does not violate the sense of the Constitution or Civil Rights Act of 1964--that is, to provide "equal protection under the law." The decision also rules unconstitutional the use of any racially-based quota system in an admissions process, in concordance with the opinions of Chief Justice Burger, and Justices Rhenquist, Stewart and Stevens...
...answer is civil liberties gospel: if you fail to protect even the most odious and unpopular speech, you risk undermining all free speech. Basic to the First Amendment, the lesson is clear enough to the courts, which have struck down Skokie's attempts to keep the Nazis from demonstrating. Last week the Supreme Court refused to stop Nazi picketing planned for this Sunday in Skokie...
...Nazis' rights. Its membership, heavily Jewish, has dropped from a peak of 270,000 in 1976 to 200,000 today. A resultant $500,000 decline in dues and gifts has caused staff layoffs of up to 15% in some state offices. There is now less money to defend civil rights and liberties of a more sympathetic kind. "People who joined us because of other great causes," Neier reports, "were stunned over Skokie...
...Scottsboro boys" and conscientious objectors in World War II. Though consistently the country's foremost protector of the Bill of Rights, the A.C.L.U. had acquired only 60,000 members by 1960. Its period of large growth came in the late '60s and early '70s, when civil rights and liberties became a popular cause and thousands of young people joined to help support Freedom Riders in the South and Viet Nam draft resisters. Says Neier: "We rode the crest of public concern." Now Neier and others feel that "the country is less concerned with individual rights. There...