Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trouble within the Woman's Movement was that no issue galvanized feminist activity. The Equal Rights Amendment was not ratified because so few women saw the gains as being immediate or verifiable. Other issues like pornography pitted female civil libertarians against their allies when many argued that the ills of censorship far outweighed any gains...
Under that law, passed in 1970 and significantly strengthened in recent years, prosecutors can bring civil lawsuits to confiscate property that is either bought with illegal profits or knowingly used for drug trafficking...
Faust, who last year published The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South, is a leading figure in U.S. Southern history. She is now working on a book about Confederate women in the Civil...
...insist. But they are most riled by the suggestion that gays need to tone down and blend in: that would slash at the heart of the gay- rights movement, they charge. Says Sherrie Cohen of the Fund for Human Dignity: "We're for embracing diversity and for protecting the civil rights of anyone who is perceived as 'different.' " Toby Marotta, a sociologist in San Francisco, finds the book's thesis the same "homophile argument used before Stonewall and abandoned afterward." Some gays believe, too, that the conservative approach may actually encourage homosexuals to remain invisible; the better gays succeed...
...government of Prime Minister Sadiq el Mahdi was toppled late last week. Although the timing was unexpected, the coup came as no surprise. The armed forces had demonstrated unusual restraint during the Prime Minister's ineffectual reign, which neither advanced a political settlement in the savage six-year-old civil war nor dealt with the country's vicious poverty and famine. Speaking for the rebellious forces, Brigadier Omar Hassan Ahmed el Bashir said el Mahdi had "wasted the country's time and squandered its energies with much talk and policy vacillation...