Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...depicted as the great "liberal" who had saved the world during the Missile Crisis and led the United States out of the Cold War and into a new, more hopeful era of detente with the Soviet Union. Likewise, in domestic affairs, he was pictured as the champion of civil rights and the hero of the underprivileged. It seemed that Kennedy had done little, if anything wrong...
...willing. He lost by a slim margin to former Navy Secretary John Warner, thus casting Elizabeth Taylor in yet another role, Senate wife. In Mississippi, Cochran became the first Republican Senator in almost a century, partly because the black vote was split Democrat Maurice Dantin and independent Black Civil Rights Leader Charles Evers...
...these Democratic defeats mean a Southern repudiation of the first President from the Deep South since the Civil War? Not really. But they do emphasize the birth of the two-party system in the once Solid South...
Homosexuals won key ballot victories in two Western states. Californians followed the advice of civil liberties groups and conservatives and rejected Proposition 6, which would have enabled local school boards to fire teachers who are gay or who advocate homosexuality. Said Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley: "It was a measure against not just the rights of gay teachers but the civil rights of us all." In Seattle, voters retained a law that bars landlords and employers from discriminating against homosexuals. But in Florida, Miami-area voters refused to endorse a gay rights bill...
...Western observers, whether the Shah stays or goes will probably depend on himself. A complex man of deep and varying moods, he could in a streak of despondency suddenly decide to give up, leaving a divided Iran that might well face civil war. Diplomats who saw him last week found him in better spirits than before the military changeover; fatigue and strain showed in ( his face, but he was not cracking. Indeed, he appeared to be spurred on by anger over what he feels was the deception and gross negligence of former friends and officials, like Hoveida, on whom...