Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA--In the evenings, Pretoria looks a great deal like Washington, D.C. A few tall buildings in the center of the city house South Africa's civil service, Pretoria's major industry. The Voortrekker Monument an enormous memorial to the Afrikaaners who walked from the coast into South Africa's heartland in the 1830s, stands over Pretoria just as the Washington monument watches over Washington. Around the city, white residential areas look just like Washington's suburbs: neat houses with well-tended gardens look out over beautifully laid-out streets lined with graceful jacaranda trees...
...think that the court has really cut back on the advances of the civil rights movement that were made before the Burger court," Smith added...
...West to remove that veto from the Security Council, to start getting the West to behave as if it believes what it says, then there would be a chance of a reasonably democratic constitution. On the other hand if there is a long, bitter, drawn-out racial civil war, with an ever-growing need for the black liberation groups to get their aid from Russia and China, the new government won't be all that interested in a Washington-type constitution...
DIED. Julius Shiskin, 66, Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner whose monthly barometric reading of unemployment and prices measured the economic weather; of a kidney ailment; in Washington, D.C. A career civil servant, Shiskin worked in the Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget before being appointed to his last post by President Nixon in 1973. Respected and apolitical, the BLS chief was reappointed by President Carter last year. Finding the consumer price index too narrowly based, Shiskin worked out new formulas to better gauge the costs of U.S. goods and services...
...Roots 1. The show's climax will dramatize Haley's arrival in Gambia to search for traces of his African forebear, Kunta Kinte. Along the way, Roots 2 will encompass the Reconstruction, two world wars, the growth of urban black ghettos and the birth of the modern civil rights movement...