Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article, a student stated that her organization, the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee, will "challenge the extent to which Mobutu is qualified to speak on peace and progress." On numerous occasions, President Mobutu has proven his ability as a peacemaker. After five years of civil war following the independence of the "Belgian-Congo," he united the country under the banner of the M.P.R. in 1965, giving the citizens of Zaire peace and stability for over two decades. In 1983, the President sent Zairian troops to Chad in order to assist the Chadians in their battle against the Libyan army. Recently, President...
David LaFontaine, lobbying director of the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights, said he thinks Bulger's ruling guaranteed the bill would pass the Senate, where supporters have a solid majority...
Last year's court term was perhaps the most publicized in decades, as the conservative court turned to abortion and civil rights issues which have not been substantially changed since an activist, liberal court of the 1960s and 1970s first ruled on their constitutionality...
...addition to that civil rights case, the justices on their first day also...
...capital showed symptoms of panic. Conservative members of the Politburo were warning that the country could be slipping out of control. Government officials were speculating openly about the possibility of a coup. A rock group climbed the Soviet hit parade with a song whose refrain was "We are anticipating civil war." Arriving home, Gorbachev, looking tanned and vigorous after four weeks on the Black Sea shore, went straight to the Kremlin television studio and accused conservatives and radicals of creating an atmosphere of "despair and uncertainty...