Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After some 65 years of Jewish immigration, greatly accelerated during the era of Nazi persecution, the United Nations General Assembly votes to abolish the 1920 British mandate and partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. The Arabs reject the plan, and civil strife worsens...
...necessary 38 states ratified the measure, but the surprising fact is that some of the answers are already in. Since 1970, 14 states-have written equal rights for women into their own state constitutions. Experience in those states, according to a report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, "provides an important model for ERA implementation on a national level...
Enforcement of the state ERAS varies from negligible in Virginia to considerable in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. But in gen eral, says the Civil Rights Com mission, the effect "has been one of substantial strides toward equality," achieved in an orderly way. Some results...
...last year at a Los Angeles disco. Only trouble was, the friends were vague about the ceremony. They said it took place last October on a mountainside outside Tokyo while Connors was nursing an ankle injury. Whatever happened in Japan, they were definitely married in a civil ceremony in February in St. Louis, from which area the bride and groom both hail. The retired Playmate is expecting in August...
...Daughter, a police detective who could have prevented his daughter's suicide deliberately fails to do so by not answering her radio call for help. In Fathers and Sons, a mythic play about Wild Bill Hickok, neither friendship nor love escapes the carnage. In Babe's Civil War play Rebel Women, General Sherman says, "I have no passion for war." The plausibility gap in Babe's plays is that almost nothing arouses his characters' passions...