Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more serious note, however, since Mobuto took power in 1965. Zaire's government has been stable. Zaire has not been wracked by the constant civil war that has plagued other African nations...
...lobbying pamphlet distributed by the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights quotes a March, 1987 Wall Street Journal survey which said 66 percent of U.S. chief executives would hesitate to promote a gay person to management-committee level...
Since crime reports are published in newspapers, many victims are afraid to do anything about gay bashing because they know there are no civil rights statutes to protect them against job or housing discrimination, says David M. Osborne, aide to State Sen. Michael J. Barrett '70 (D-Cambridge...
...breakdown of authority," and six cutters headed for the island to evacuate panicked vacationers. But the restoration of order did not begin until Thursday with the arrival of 1,200 U.S. military police, federal marshals and FBI agents -- the first time Army troops have been used to quell a civil disturbance since the riots in Washington following the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. Most of the escaped prisoners have been recaptured. What little there is left to protect is being guarded. St. Croix may have been reduced to the primitive, but civilization has returned...
After ten years of a bloody civil war that has claimed some 70,000 lives, there are no eternal optimists left in El Salvador. Blind hope went out of fashion after then President Jose Napoleon Duarte met with failure in three meetings with the leftist guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front. Since the last talks in 1987, the two sides have dug in with renewed determination. Now, four months after Alfredo Cristiani, 41, succeeded Duarte as President, there is new talk of reconciliation. Representatives of the government and the F.M.L.N. met two weeks ago in Mexico City...