Word: civilization
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...escape was easier to bring off than most porn fantasies. The defendant in a civil damage trial in Louisville, just across the Ohio River from New Albany, Thevis had been transferred to the jail earlier last month from the federal prisoners medical facility in Springfield, Mo. Even before his arrival, say police investigators, Thevis had greased the jailers' keys. Two deputies received $100 each from Sheriff Alex Watkins, who told them the money came from someone connected with Thevis. Watkins, who says Thevis came "highly recommended" by his attorneys as an "honor roll prisoner," claimed that the money...
Once again the copper-rich region of Shaba (formerly Katanga Province) in southeastern Zaïre was engulfed in civil war. An estimated 5,000 Katangese. guerrillas of the Congolese National Liberation Front (F.L.N.C.), which has been seeking autonomy for Shaba since Zaïre gained its independence from Belgium in 1960, launched a deadly strike on the region from their bases in Marxist-run Angola. In a seesaw battle with the forces of President Mobutu Sese Seko, the Katangese rebels-who variously refer to themselves as les tigres (French for tigers) or camaradas (Portuguese for comrades)-captured the provincial...
...which the Bakke decision will affect thousands of affirmative-action programs in business, education and government. "Everybody is holding their breath. Courts and defendants are trying to do as little as possible until they see what the Bakke decision will say," says one lawyer. Notes Joseph Rauh, a leading civil rights attorney in Washington: "I don't blame the courts. They don't want to rule one way today and be reversed by the Supreme Court next month...
Neither Dileo nor Stepak encountered, as Bakke did, a specific numerical quota reserving places for minorities. But quotas are a burning issue in several reverse-discrimination employment cases, arising under Title VII of the Civil Rights...
Schwartz points to the well-documented fact that Lincoln had disproportionately long arms, legs, hands and feet, even for a man of his height. While watching a regiment of Maine lumbermen during the Civil War, the President himself noted: "I don't believe that there is a man in that regiment with longer arms than mine." In 1907 a sculptor working with Lincoln casts observed that "the first phalanx of the middle finger is nearly half an inch longer than that of an ordinary hand." The President sometimes squinted with his left eye. All of these characteristics, according...