Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fairness. The staff describes the 1980 s as a decade of "insensitivity and hostility to minority concerns" and condemns the Reagan Justice Department for seeking to roll back affirmative action. We agree with this assessment and remain critical of the Justice Department's failure to continue actively prosecuting civil rights cases...
...staff fails to recognize that not all who question current forms of affirmative action, as the Court does in Richmond, are racist and are intent on "rolling back" civil rights. The staff's position implies that supporters of the decision are somehow against improving race relations and are insensitive to minority concerns. Such implications are both misleading and counterproductive to the purposes of conferences like Visions...
Though issues of identity perennially form the base of minority agendas, renewed attention upon it may signal the new assertiveness of ethnic groups 25 years after the height of the Civil Rights Movement. The question, frequently a subtle one for outsiders, signifies in many ways the rise of a new understanding of racism and racial insensitivity. However, different groups seek different answers for themselves...
Duarte's stand put him sharply at odds with Washington, which has staunchly backed the Salvadoran leader's efforts to end the nation's civil war. State Department spokesman Charles Redman said the F.M.L.N. offer was "worthy of serious and substantive consideration." Privately, State Department officials were enthusiastic, lauding the proposal as a fundamental shift in rebel policy that could signal a breakthrough...
...solidly rooted Washington tradition, the National Prayer Breakfast does have its critics. Some Fundamentalists thought interfaith amity was stretched too far last year, when Saudi Arabia's Ambassador recited from the Qur'an. Hatfield complains that the breakfast has become a status symbol and "a ceremony of civil religion." He has introduced a Senate motion to abolish the affair. Many foreign observers find the whole phenomenon of Potomac piety somewhat disconcerting. "It is incomprehensible to most Europeans," sniffs a British diplomat. "It's almost as bad as Freemasonry...