Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flowers and fountains in northern Zaire, is sometimes called "Versailles-in- the-Jungle." The nickname, a reminder of the treaty that ended World War I, seemed especially apt last week as Angolan President Eduardo dos Santos and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, the main antagonists in a 14-year-old civil war, met there for a handshake that might lead to a formal peace agreement...
...Angola's civil war, a conflict that has devastated the country and taken the lives of an estimated 100,000 people, began when the Portuguese colonial government pulled out in 1975. The Marxist leadership in Luanda immediately accepted military and economic aid from the Soviet Union and troop support from Cuba; UNITA turned for help to the U.S. and South Africa. With neither side able to prevail in an increasingly costly and bloody contest, the first step toward conciliation was finally taken last December. After eight years of U.S.-brokered negotiations, South Africa agreed to grant independence to Namibia...
Assessing these decisions, attorney Floyd Abrams, a free-speech specialist, said they constituted a "reassuring week for the First Amendment." Said he: "The court has been considerably more sensitive to First Amendment rights than to other civil-liberties claims. Some of President Reagan's appointees have been refreshingly libertarian in their approach...
...remembering injury. So too the Northern Irish, whose Protestants celebrate the Battle of the Boyne -- next year is the 300th anniversary -- as if it took place yesterday. The inability to forget, to let the slate be wiped clean, freezes societies in anachronism and turns blood feuds into endless civil...
...great to see a symbol of international plunder and murder go up in flames," he said. His lawyer, David Cole, was slightly less inflammatory: "If free expression is to exist in this country, people must be as free to burn the flag as they are to wave it." Civil liberties advocates approved, though some were worried that the case had been decided by so narrow a margin. "James Madison, who wrote the First Amendment, would have his heart warmed by the decision," said David O'Brien, a professor of political science at the University of Virginia, "but he would have...