Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...court reverses Roe. Activists dumped 200,000 letters at the Justice Department last week, urging Attorney General Dick Thornburgh to drop his request to the court that it overturn Roe. "This has for the past 15 years been a legal struggle," said Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. "It has now become a political struggle...
...mobilize public support for Roe, pro-choice groups like NARAL, Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union expect to spend about $2.5 million through June on print and broadcast advertising. And at a meeting in March called by Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown, the editors of 16 women's magazines agreed to step up their coverage of the abortion dispute. "I feel we're not holding our ground the way we should," says Brown...
Above all, abortion activists predict that the struggle could lead to a seismic shift in American politics, becoming a constant factor in nearly every election and threatening to fracture both parties. Like civil rights and the Viet Nam War in the 1960s, abortion could be the great preoccupation of the 1990s. "It will be a battle for years and years and years," says Samuel Lee, executive director of Missouri Citizens for Life, which helped write the law at issue in the Webster case. "I don't think it's ever going to go away...
...MEMBER OF THE WEDDING. Esther Rolle (Good Times) and Amelia Campbell glow as nanny and budding adolescent in this moving off-Broadway revival of Carson McCullers' coming-of-age story of the pre-civil rights South...
...tough eviction policy that Kemp called for last week. It would speed the expulsion of any person convicted, or even suspected, of dealing or using drugs. Moreover, anyone who shared the apartment with the drug offender could also be ousted. Mary Brunette, Kemp's spokeswoman, pooh-poohs the civil liberties questions raised by that policy. Says she: "The rights of law-abiding families in public housing are at least as important as the rights of criminals...