Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shift in Kennedy's political approach been more marked than in his bill to revise the federal criminal code. The legislation, which was stalled for twelve years because it was so controversial, authorizes sharply defined sentencing guidelines, and completely phases out the federal parole system. The American Civil Liberties Union has stiffly attacked Kennedy for certain parts of the bill and even some Republicans have described it as too authoritarian...
...from the U.S. were about to blow up government radio towers at Cerro Maravilla, a mountain site about 50 miles from San Juan. Yet there are so many unanswered questions and contradictory versions of the police ambush that a U.S. Justice Department investigation is looking for possible violations of civil rights, a federal grand jury is probing the case, and relatives of Carlos Soto Arrivi, 18, and Arnaldo Dario Rosado, 23, have sued the police and the Governor for $2,150,000. Their suit maintains that the young men were victims of "summary execution...
...they were arrested by federal marshals. As the men were taken away, scores of supporters stood outside the refuge's barbed-wire fence, crying, praying and singing. The four were sentenced to 30 days in jail for criminal contempt of court. U.S. Attorney William T. Moore insisted that civil rights was not at issue. Said he: "Everybody has the same rights to the Harris Neck refuge...
Taraki and Amin are not the first reformers who have tried to tame Afghanistan. A half-century ago, King Amanullah launched a crash modernization effort that had some similarities to the Taraki program. But in 1929, after he had been on the throne only ten years, a civil war broke out and Amanullah went into exile, effectively ending his rule and the modernization drive. It is a chapter of Afghan history that the country's present rulers doubtless remember all too well...
What is Botswana's secret? "We allow free entry to politics from the East, aid from the West, and food from the South," says a white senior civil servant. By this he means that Botswana has diplomatic relations with China and the Soviet Union, accepts financial assistance from the U.S. and Western Europe, and still has close trade connections with South Africa. Botswana does not maintain diplomatic ties with either Salisbury or Pretoria, but its territory is traversed by a Rhodesian-owned railway, and its economy, which revolves around diamond, copper and zinc mining and cattle ranching, is completely...