Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unrelenting pressure from Kennedy and the White House. The generally conservative members of the House Subcommittee on Criminal Justice were persuaded by their liberal colleague, Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman '62, to block Kennedy's bill due to "exceptionally broad and sloppy language" and the many potential dangers posed to civil liberties and the First Amendment." (See Hentoff in the Village Voice, 11/27/78...
Seabrook, which is being built by the New Hampshire Public Service Company, has been the scene of two large-scale civil disobedience actions over the last three years. Large numbers of protesters were arrested at each of the two previous actions...
...Hair's was the third such protest within a week. Birth control and abortion advocate William Baird filed suit in the U.S. District Court to prevent the use of public funds and land for the religious ceremonies. Also, two protestant ministers joined representatives from the Civil Liberties Union at a City Council hearing to protest the use of public funds for the papal mass on the Boston Common October...
...compromise too: they agreed to discuss needed modification in a constitition largely handed down from the days of white rule. For a while, it seemed that the London conference might be on the way to achieving an end to 14 years of Rhodesian political strife, seven years of civil, and over 100 years of denial of black rights...
...African front-line states, whose populations, border areas, and economics have been ravaged by the war, would also welcome peace, but politically they have too much at stake to end the war for a shabby settlement. The present Zimbabwe constitution--in which whites control the courts, military, police and civil service, hold enough guaranteed parliamentary seats to block constitutional changes, and receive an even more disproportionate share of seats in the Cabinet--must be totally overhauled. (A constitutional solution acceptable to the front-line states would undoubtedly bring prizes of recognition and trade, and the lifting of United Nations economic...