Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JOHANNESBURG--Antiapartheid leaders Sunday announced a militant strategy of civil disobedience and political pressure and urged South African whites to join them for the "final onslaught on apartheid...
Though long-haul passenger trains in the U.S. have been equipped with toilets since before the Civil War, they went on dumping effluent right onto the tracks until states passed laws in recent years forcing them to clean up their act. Amtrak, however, was given a federal exemption from such regulations. The practice has irked railway workers and bystanders, who have sometimes fallen afoul of the raw waste from speeding trains...
...admit that Israel has done some wrong in the last two years. Yet to accept every accusation of civil and human rights abuses as if they were indisputable facts and to assume that Israel's great security risk need not have widespread implications is grossly unfair and intellectually dishonest. I do not desire to deny any and all wrongdoing by Israel--I only want intelligent people at Harvard to look up from their textbooks and see the real context in which things occur. That way maybe people will see the situation in the Middle East in its full moral...
...Sally Greenberg, civil rights director ofthe New England Anti-Defamation League, criticizedthe Wisconsin code as being "over broad...
...leading member of Congress last night called for a United Nations-administered solution to the 22-year-old Cambodian civil war, saying it was the best way to prevent the bloody Khmer Rouge from regaining power there...