Word: civilizations
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Both Lee and Paik had previously been dismissed from professorships and Korean universities--Paik for signing a petition that called for the restoration of democracy in South Korea. In Korea a civil servant may not participate in any political activity. However, the signing of a petition--in effect, a statement of political belief--seems to fall somewhat short of political activity...
...driven by religious conscience into resisting Moscow's strictures, the Reform Baptists insist that they are not political dissidents. "In accordance with biblical teaching," Vins says, "we believe that every authority is ultimately from God and that we are obliged to submit ourselves to such authority on all civil matters. To work. To pay taxes. To show respect to the government. But when it is a question of faith, then we submit ourselves to God alone...
...year, surely did not end segregation or discrimination in our schools or in the rest of the country. It was a puny step, but a step in the right direction, a moral act. It led to an end of the most virulent segregation, and paved the way for other civil rights decisions. When Nixon was first attacked for Watergate, who expected him to fall to such ignominy? Who expected Ian Smith to share anything with blacks? All change is slow. Revolutions begin with baby steps...
DIED. Ezekiel C. ("Took") Gathings, 75, conservative Arkansas Congressman (1939-69); of a heart attack; in West Memphis, Ark. Influential on agricultural committees, Gathings made headlines in 1952 when he did an impromptu hootchy-kootchy before a House committee to illustrate the lewdness of TV. Opposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he insisted that "the Negro in the South is a happy person. He understands the members of the white race, and they understand...
Wallace takes aim and fires in a recent book titled Black Macho & the Myth of the Superwoman (Dial; $7.95). Tracing the breakdown of black male-female relationships back to the civil rights struggles of the '60s, she writes: "During the summer of 1964 hundreds of middle-class white women went South to work with the Movement and, in a fair number of cases, to have affairs with black men. Some of the women were pressured into it (anything to avoid the label of being racist), others freely chose...