Word: civilizations
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...Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union objected to the city paying the cost of the Pope's visit, which city officials estimate at about...
...Runyan may say: "The only reason they're making a big deal about the Unification Church is because it's the Unification Church. They don't mind any other religions investing money, and making fortunes. But they're scared of us. We've been through civil rights, and the blacks--and now they find new groups. Religious persecution has been going on since the beginning of the country...before...and many times in Gloucester. Strangely enough, people come here to escape...
Despite the danger, some Floridians greeted the storm with abandon, holding hurricane parties in Miami, Key West and other resorts. Part of the come-what-may attitude may have been a result of the complacency that civil defense' officials say has grown in the 14 years since southern Florida's last major hurricane, in 1965. In coastal Dade County, the population has increased almost 55% since then, and an estimated 80% of the 1.7 million residents have never lived through a big storm...
...this week with his archenemies Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, co-leaders of the Patriotic Front. The purpose of the conference, which is sponsored by Britain, is to forge an agreement that may lead to Patriotic Front participation in new elections and an end to the bloody seven-year civil war. With a stable majority-rule government in Salisbury, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher could lift the 13-year-old economic sanctions against Britain's breakaway colony when they expire in November. On the eve of his departure for the peace talks, Muzorewa (along with former Prime Minister Ian Smith...
Most discussion centers on the great cities with large black populations where, experience so far suggests, busing's chances of success are slight. According to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the average black pupil in the North and West now attends schools more segregated than those in the South. After the U.S. Supreme Court gave yet another go-ahead to desegregation in Columbus last July, the U.S. Justice Department announced, without disclosing the targets, that it intends to investigate similar school districts elsewhere. As school opens this year, TIME examines four representative communities that, over the past eight...