Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that matter, they did not raise a voice in protest earlier this month when the Marxist guerrilla front in El Salvador began an offensive that prompted the latest wave of violence in the decade-old civil...
...essence, the message I got from the fake draft notice was that we should be terrified, not because the ongoing civil war in El Salvador represents a tremendous human tragedy, but because we Harvard students might somehow be drafted to fight in some highly improbable U.S. war in the region...
There is no more fitting place than Montgomery, Ala., site of the epic 1955-56 black boycott to desegregate the bus system, to memorialize the nation's decades-long struggle for civil rights. Last week 5,000 black and white Americans gathered there to dedicate a black granite sculpture engraved with the names of 40 particularly unforgettable men, women and children -- an honor roll representing the untold numbers of people who have died in violent racial confrontations...
...historic day for Massachusetts. Our state is once again in the forefront of efforts to extend civil rights protection...
...Michael S. Dukakis, as he signed the Gay Civil Rights Bill into law Wednesday, making Massachusetts the second state in the nation--after Wisconsin--to enact such legislation...