Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Civic Forum is ready to create a bridge for a peaceful path from totalitarianism to civil freedom, which will later be guaranteed by free elections," Havel said, referring to the new pro- democracy group Civic Forum...
Kupelnick filed the letter as an exhibit in the court complaint, which charges breach of contract, bad faith termination, breach of the implied convenant of good faith and fair dealing, malicious interference in advantageous employment relations and defamation and violation of civil rights...
...People seem more interested in paying attention to petty procedural issues here than issues of life and liberty there," said, referring to the escalation of civil disorder in El Salvador...
Centerpiece of the structure -- conceived by Maya Lin, who designed Washington's Viet Nam Veterans Memorial -- is a round tabletop, 11 1/2 ft. in diameter. On it, along with the 40 names, is carved a chronology of major civil rights events, and over this flows a thin sheen of water, a symbol of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "mighty stream" of righteousness. Said Karen Reeb, daughter of a white Unitarian minister who was beaten to death after he marched with King in Selma, Ala.: "It just eases the emptiness in my heart...
...Royal Canadian Mounted Police are a much loved national symbol. But a proposal by R.C.M.P. Commissioner Norman Inkster to make their trademark flat- brimmed dress hat optional for Sikh recruits, whose religion demands they wear turbans, is pitting traditionalists against civil rights advocates and the immigrant community...