Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hired a lot of women: "More than 21% of my appointments within the White House and the Executive Branch have been women, an alltime high for any Administration." Beyond that, he stressed Administration concern for such first steps as passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, the enforcement of all civil rights laws and the development of improved statistical information concerning women. He asked Congress to pass a number of pending bills related to the Houston plan, but his message had little impact on a Congress already concerned with the ending of the session ("What message?" asked a member...
Still unknown was the fate of the cult's flamboyant founder, Jim Jones, 47. A white civil rights activist and Marxist, he started building a largely black congregation in the late 1960s. A few years later, he ruled a string of communes from Los Angeles to Vancouver. Rigidly disciplined, they turned out diligent workers on election day to help Democratic candidates. In gratitude, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone appointed Jones chairman of the San Francisco Housing Authority in 1975, and many of the cultists were placed in city and county jobs...
Gaza is another matter. Egypt administered it from 1948 until 1967, when the Israelis captured it, along with the Sinai. Thus Sadat proposed that the Egyptians and the Israelis agree to a time limit for negotiating self-government for Gaza, and that Israel allow the Egyptians to maintain civil order there until local governments have been established. Sadat thought it possible that some Gaza leaders could be persuaded to join the talks. He also believed that if a Gaza settlement could lead to West Bank negotiations, then perhaps Hussein and some of the West Bankers might be willing to participate...
...fanatically anti-communist in the early '60s. He was a liberal who argued that Green Berets were a superior and more enlightened alternative to Eisenhower's simplistically dangerous theory of massive retaliation and the bigger bang for the buck. He was a moderate who refused to push civil rights legislation through a Congress dominated by southern conservatives. He was a radical who, for the first time since Lincoln, confronted the nation with the "moral outrage" of the position of the black in society. He was a pragmatist who competed fiercely with the Soviets in the armaments race that he might...