Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little clots of prayer, then bustling to their tasks. Their language is semimilitary, befitting such constant readers of the Book of Exodus. These are churchgoing, middle-class couples, uneasy in the shabby clothes they have put on for prison service later in the day. Not the demonstrators of civil rights or antiwar protests, these are a new breed: "Bible Christians" increasingly determined to restore their country...
...ROTC were to stop violating individuals' rights and were not to require academic credit, it should be given University affiliation. The staff says that educational programs not under the academic control of the University should not be allowed on campus. This stand is an affront to civil liberties and freedom of association. If applied across the board, it would require programs such as the Undergraduate Teacher Education Program to shut down because they are not part of the academic structure. But the staff would not apply this standard across the board. It would pick and choose the activities that...
Both schools were founded shortly after the Civil War, when educators considered the creation of an educated officer corps a priority, according to Capt. John M. Keefe, an assistant professor of military science at Cornell's Army ROTC unit...
According to Grossman, in the mid-1980s, violence in South Africa "became such a gripping story" because it reminded American audiences of the recent Civil Rights fights...
...member of the audience why South African suppression was covered more than oppression in other places, such as Israel, Grossman said he attributed the diference to the fact that South Africans speak English, that they used to be part of the British Commonwealth and that their situation echos the Civil Rights movement...