Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...domestic front, Democratic opponents would by now have stripped the civil service reform bill of the Administration's key provisions were it not for the support of Republican Representatives Ed Derwinski and Tom Corcoran of Illinois and James Leach of Iowa. In the House Ways and Means Committee, Barber Conable of New York and other Republicans have defended the Administration's free-trade policies against the Democrats' more protectionist attitudes...
...more than a generation, Strom Thurmond has been a legend in South Carolina. As Governor in 1948, he indignantly walked out of the Democratic National Convention to protest the civil rights plank in the party platform and ran for President as a Dixiecrat. In the Senate he became the foremost filibusterer against civil rights legislation, declaring that there would never be enough laws on the books or troops in the Army to force the South to integrate. In 1964 he bolted the Democrats for good, joined the Republican Party, and later was part of Richard Nixon's Southern strategy...
...Washington, B.C., leaders of 120 Spanish-speaking organizations call for a White House conference on Hispanic Americans. Among the demands they want aired: greater emphasis on bilingual education; bigger immigration quotas; more federal civil service jobs...
Lashman and State Rep. Barney Frank initiated and will co-chair the Democrats for Brooke Committee, which includes members of the "women's movement, people in education and civil rights folks," Lashman said...
...Anyone who calls himself a liberal and has been concerned with the civil rights movement in this country--to vote against Ed Brooke is inconsonant with his positions," he added...