Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eight years as Customs commissioner, Von Raab's penchant for independent action and colorful talk has landed him in a series of well- publicized scrapes. He was an early and vehement critic of Washington's see-no-evil policy toward Panama strongman Manuel Noriega. He appalled civil libertarians by proposing to shoot down suspected drug-smuggling planes. He infuriated the State Department by trying to mark passports of drug smugglers caught at the border. He promoted the "zero tolerance" program that called for prosecuting people apprehended with small amounts of drugs and confiscating their cars, boats and planes...
...civil rights movement never did really come to Keysville, and I'll admit that I was one of those who never really thought we needed it. Things were fine -- until we started trying to get something. There had been no problems because no one had ever rocked the boat. I kept reading these newspaper stories about Keysville blacks seeking political power. Then it hit me: power! The whites thought we were looking for power. I was looking for a better life. I had never even thought about what we were doing in terms of trying to get power...
...Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders...
...beguilingly easy it has been for most white Americans to forget. How tempting to ignore the evidence that discrimination endures. How alluring is the myth that all those willing to work have shared in the surface prosperity of the 1980s. How glib are the assumptions that civil rights legislation, affirmative action and black political participation inevitably lead to an integrated society. How self-satisfying to conclude that the U.S. has already done enough to tear down the barriers of segregation...
...have as many white friends as black, but my white friends and I don't talk about race, because when we do, we get testy," says Franklin Williams, a black New York City foundation executive. Henry Schwarzschild, a white long active in national civil rights causes, remains equally pessimistic: "My sense is that on both sides of the racial divide, society has given up on this problem...