Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Maronites feared that the well-armed Palestinians would not only create a P.L.O.-run state within a state inside Lebanon but also turn the country into another confrontation power. In 1975, as clashes between Christians and Palestinians escalated into full-scale civil war, the Maronite militia turned to Israel for arms and training. A certain elitism - and a mutual hatred of Syrians - has nurtured the longstanding bond between the Israelis and the Europe-oriented Maronites, who regard themselves as a bastion of Western civilization in the Arab world. As a Christian militia officer explained last week, "We feel, like...
...shocked East Beirut, some bakers have fired up their ovens, repair crews are at work fixing broken water lines and restoring electricity. People who intend to stay on are stocking their shelters with Israeli canned goods. The Christians' ability to bounce back from adversity is remarkable. Throughout the civil war, their sections of Beirut were free from garbage and crime, in marked contrast to the areas under Palestinian control. Once more the Maronites are demonstrating their competence and courage. When a group of Christians trying to escape from East Beirut came under Syrian machine-gun fire, their leader shouted...
Large and small pressure groups or activist groups are exercising their new muscle legally even when they stray beyond the bounds of civility, as they frequently do. Nobody questions their right to behave as they do, and even critics who recall with distaste the triumph of the zealous temperance crusade that, in 1919, got the Prohibition amendment passed could cite occasions when dedicated dissident groups have served the nation's higher interests admirably. Indeed, today's factional enthusiasm is usually tracked to two such instances: the civil rights movement and the anti-Viet Nam War movement...
...were launched by numerical minorities, both ultimately succeeded and both taught the larger American public lessons about the efficacy of organization, demonstration, passionate dramatics and exploitation of the mass media. The tacticians of those movements, dealing with fateful and fundamental issues, could plausibly justify using every available technique, including civil defiance. The trouble is that not only the techniques but the fervid spirit of the rights and antiwar movements are being adopted for general application in almost all social and political controversies. Some groups of Long Island residents howled and demonstrated effectively for a while against the Concorde...
...McCree, Bakke posed a particularly hard dilemma. Sympathetic to the civil rights movement-as a federal judge, he ruled frequently in favor of busing to desegregate schools-he is also known for lawyerly caution and balance. Comments one legal scholar: "He thinks like a lawyer, not a civil rights activist." Bakke's fallout will create further dilemmas. The Supreme Court has agreed to review a federal district court order forcing...