Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What about the '60s, you ask. Sure, we all remember "I have a dream" and the civil rights movement dragging a whole society kicking and screaming partway out of its cave. Sure, we puddle with nostalgia over the hundreds of thousands who massed in Washington for the moratoriums against the Vietnam War. But those were the clear-cut issues, glamorous in a strange way; they were drama. But where was the institutional depth to deal with the more complicated structural issues, the inbred capitalist priority system? Check out your own neighborhood to see how far we still have...
BEIRUT--Violence between a peace-keeping Syrian force and Christians has caused serious damage in the capital city in fighting that veterans of the Lebanese conflict say is worse than any seen during the height of the civil war last year...
...Syrians, now the majority of an Arab League peace-keeping force stationed in the city, intervened in the civil war between leftist Lebanese Moslems, Palestinians and right-wing Christians, whom the Moslems thought had too much political power...
...think this is in some ways worse than the civil war," a British diplomat, who was here during the 19-month conflict, said. "The big guns weren't operating then. It was mostly a light-arms...
Ferrick, a member of Harvard's United Ministry, challenged the speech Solzhenitsyn gave at Commencement last June in which the exiled Soviet author criticized the West for its lack of civil courage and its lack of religious morality...