Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nothing else, the month-long international conference in Paris dramatizes the importance and complexity of events in Cambodia. After more than ten years of occupation, Vietnamese troops are due to pull out next month. At issue in Paris is what happens next -- a new round of civil war or a coalition government? And should a coalition include the Khmer Rouge, the murderous ultra-Maoists whom the Vietnamese drove into the jungle...
Some forensic pathologists suggest giving medical examiners civil service status or allying them more closely with medical schools, where independence is a tradition. Many advocate setting up regional forensic centers to provide expert consultants to local communities. Almost all emphasize that higher salaries are needed to lure bright young doctors into the field. Most M.E.s make less than $100,000 a year, while a pathologist who runs a hospital's laboratory services can pull in more than double that amount...
This outcome, however, does not seem likely given the now-imminent demise of the Contras and the apparent desire of the Nicaraguan government to appear fair. President Daniel Ortega has more to lose from the international outcry and the resumption of civil war following a military crackdown than he can gain...
...Congress also dealt Bush the two biggest defeats of his early administration by rejecting the president's nominations of John Tower for secretary of defense and William Lucas for assistant attorney general in charge of the civil rights division...
...meant that more and more black folks would become more like us," says white historian David Garrow, a biographer of Martin Luther King Jr. This political climate has left many black leaders disheartened. "We don't have a clue on how to proceed," says Eleanor Holmes Norton, a top civil rights official in the Carter Administration. "I would never have said that...