Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...produced photographic records of their activities from his private albums even when such mementos were not requested. Properly businesslike, he kept detailed records of the transactions-and there were rumors that those lists included the names of several Gaullist Deputies, the wife of a former Cabinet minister, high-ranking civil servants and wealthy industrialists...
President Ayub Khan of Pakistan has been in politics for more than a decade now, but he has not forgotten some of the elementary lessons he learned as a Sandhurst cadet many years ago. Last week, with Pakistan in its fourth month of unprecedented civil disorder and with opposition pressure steadily mounting against him, the former field marshal began a cautious tactical retreat to blunt the onslaught...
...disturbances began last October with student protests over educational conditions. Since then they have developed into massive demonstrations against Ayub's regime, with charges of corruption, nepotism and incompetence as well as demands for constitutional reform and restoration of civil liberties...
...venerable Plaza Hotel has been an all-male bastion for three hours every weekday at lunchtime. Until last week, that is, when 15 members of the National Organization for Women, led by that superfeminist Betty Friedan (The Feminine Mystique), 47, demanded entrance on the ground that their civil rights were being violated. Five of the ladies actually managed to brush by a Plaza assistant manager and the maitre d' to capture a center table. But then they came up against the main line of resistance; the waiters studiously ignored their repeated cries for service, and the ladies were eventually...
...close ties to the Vatican, have long conceded the need for changes in the concordat. Unquestionably the most troublesome issue to be faced will be divorce, which is now impossible in Italy because the concordat's marriage clauses leave the state only with the power of granting civil separations. Angry editorials in the Vatican daily L'Osservatore Romano have already objected to recently introduced divorce legislation, and Vatican officials have privately made it clear that the papacy is not likely to move an inch on .this issue. The only concession might be to permit civil divorce for purely...