Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association, the person who had worked to improve race relations on my campus and who had addressed incidents of racial harassment of others to the administration. Then I looked at this within the "Big Picture." That picture contained the recently dedicated memorial to slain civil rights activists in Montgomery, Ala.; and, closer to home, it consisted of the upcoming A.W.A.R.E. Week, which lasts from Dec. 4 to Dec. 8. Lastly, that "Big Picture" included me. Twenty years or so ago, the Civil Rights Movement ended, leaving a legacy of increased opportunity and legal justice...
...Pentagon, and haunted bars near military bases to find soldiers who would testify about U.S. crimes. After the war Rifkin worked in Harlem as a VISTA volunteer and in 1976 organized a so-called People's Bicentennial to celebrate what he considered the real national virtue: not patriotism but civil disobedience...
...hours, the drama played out on the world's television screens, and for a while it seemed as if it would provoke direct U.S. military intervention in El Salvador's ugly, decade-old civil war. Twelve Green Berets from Fort Bragg, N.C., part of a U.S. advisory team in El Salvador, were holed up on the fourth floor of the Sheraton Hotel in San Salvador's wealthy Escalon district, while about 20 heavily armed young guerrillas, who had seemingly blundered into the hotel, roamed the floors above and below them...
...most sweeping of the panel's 30 recommendations concern financial disclosure. Elected officials, high-ranking civil servants and candidates for city office would have to make public the exact amount of their income and investments, including their homes, and even list the names of their stockbrokers. Lobbyists who received more than $1,000 a year to influence city officials would have to disclose their transactions each quarter. Taken together, the proposed regulations could affect as many as 1,500 of Los Angeles' 45,000 employees, as well as an undetermined number of lobbyists and candidates...
...panel urged creation of an independent watchdog agency with the power to impose civil fines of up to $5,000, or as much as three times the amount involved in a violation. Keeping city officials aboveboard will not be cheap. The additional personnel, office space for housing the mountain of new disclosure forms, matching public campaign funds and mandatory ethics training for every city department are expected to cost between $2 million and $4 million a year...