Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Andrew Young was accurate; if we can't count "thousands" of political prisoners currently, we have only to go back through a decade or two of war protests, civil rights activism and witch hunts of the House Un-American Activities Committee to accumulate that many...
President Carter, who has declared that civil service reform was "absolutely vital," has not yet pushed his proposals through Congress. For the past two weeks he has waged a lobbying campaign, meeting with members of Congress, business executives and newspaper editors. One day, he even ventured into enemy territory by participating in a public meeting in Fairfax, Va., a suburban county where it is estimated that 40% of the families have at least one member who works for the Federal Government...
...critic of Prime Minister Ian Smith's Rhodesian Front party, Peech had organized several meetings with Macheke's tribesmen and informally had tried to work out a cease-fire with black national guerrillas in the district. Last week Tim Peech had become another grim statistic in Rhodesia's bloody civil war. While working the bush on one of his peace missions, he was ambushed and clubbed to death by the guerrillas with whom he had sought dialogue. Peech, who is survived by his American wife, Michela, a son and daughter, was the 204th white and the 2,191st civilian...
...Palmyra in 1827 and dictated their contents to a scribe before they were taken up into heaven. The result was the Book of Mormon, an account of two migrations of ancient Jews to the Americas, and of a ministry by Jesus in the New World. These Jews built elaborate civilizations before many were wiped out around A.D. 400 in a civil war at Hill Cumorah, won by ancestors of the American Indians. The trouble is there is no accepted archaeological proof of the book's claims, and the church shows no interest in excavating Hill Cumorah, where there should...
...little peek." So impatient was Trautwein to punish Farber, 40, and the Times that he began handing down sentences before pronouncing them guilty. Realizing his mistake, Trautwein declared sheepishly, "I'm putting the cart before the horse." Then he slapped both the paper and the reporter with stiff coercive civil and punitive criminal contempt sentences: a fine of $5,000 a day for the Times and jail for Farber until the notes are coughed up, plus a $100,000 fine for the Times and another six months in jail for Farber as well as fines against him totaling...