Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ATLANTA--Civil-rights leader and Visiting Professor of Afro-American Studies H. Julian Bond denied in court papers yesterday that he is father to a child born to an Atlanta-based flight attendant...
When the heat from civil libertarians became too intense, Sessions went before the American Library Association to explain the FBI's policy. His speech was more hypocrisy than genuine contrition. At the same time he was soothing librarians fears of surveillance, Sessions was telling his agents to continue approaching librarians--but to be more discreet about it. Evidently, he thought the investigation more a public relations failure than a moral outrage...
Besides being a practical matter of the utmost concern for Israel's Arab community, this bill would clearly represent a fundamental violation of civil rights. All that is required for the seizure of property is "reasonable suspicion"--not even a search warrant...
Professor Arzt concludes that the amendment now facing the Knesset "would place Israel in a camp with the country most widely known for its manipulative uses of law and the legal system to repress civil liberties and civil rights...
Could Lebanon actually be nearing a peace accord? Under the auspices of the Arab League, Lebanon's parliament last week agreed on the outlines of a new national charter revising the distribution of political power, the issue at the root of the country's 14-year-old civil war. The plan, worked out in the Saudi city of Taif, won the endorsement of 58 of the 62 legislators present. Whereas Christians previously held 54 of parliament's 99 seats, an enlarged, 108-member legislature would be evenly divided between Muslims and Christians...