Word: civilizations
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Martin L. kilson Jr. is professor of Government. Occupations Number Percent Medicine 42 18.1 Law 37 15.9 Bureaucrats (Civil Servants) 36 15.5 Business (44) 19.0 Commerce-Manufacturing 19 Publishing 13 Finance-Insurance 6 Communications 3 Agriculture 1 Real Estate 1 Transportation 1 Education (Scholars) 31 13.4 Science 11 4.7 Writing 7 3.0 Music 6 2.6 Engineering 5 2.2 Military Officer Corps 4 1.7 Architecture 3 1.3 Divinity 3 1.3 Theater 3 1.3 --- ---- Total...
Political activism is gradually?very gradually?beginning to bring Hispanics together. In Los Angeles, Latin neighborhood associations have forced city authorities to provide better services, and pressured the state government to investigate auto insurers on charges of setting unreasonable rates. In Texas, Hispanics have organized civil rights marches reminiscent of the '60s, often to protest police brutality...
...battle began on Sept. 30, when a 50-man Syrian patrol was pinned down by snipers in Christian-dominated East Beirut. In an effort to free the trapped patrol, Syrian artillery units let loose the heaviest barrages seen in the city since the Lebanese civil war came to an official end two years ago. "Never in the uninterrupted years of war since 1973 has there been such bitter fighting as in the past week," reported TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis from Beirut. "Throughout the eastern part of the city there is a continuous barrage of exploding shells and rockets. The road...
...ANGOLANS! read Portuguese newspaper ads last week. ALL PERSONS WHOSE NAMES ARE LISTED HERE SHOULD GO TO THE ANGOLAN EMBASSY ON A MATTER OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO THEM. The scores of people listed were refugees who had been airlifted to Lisbon from the former Portuguese province in 1975, when civil war threatened their lives and the prospect of a new Marxist government in Luanda threatened their property. The "matter of great importance" was approval of their longstanding applications to return to Angola. In a surprising reverse airlift, 569 refugees have already made the fateful trip back home, while some...
LESS CROWDED AIRPORTS. The Civil Aeronautics Board is trying to persuade the airlines to route more flights through smaller, "satellite" fields that are at present underused. Greater use is already being made of Oakland airport outside San Francisco and Hollywood-Burbank in Los Angeles. At the main airports, lines increasingly are busing passengers to and from their planes when space at the regular gates is tight. Expanding airport facilities can be difficult, and not only because of the costs. At Los Angeles International Airport construction of a new terminal to handle foreign flights has been long delayed pending preparation...