Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bhutto proposed an association of democratic nations to oversee elections in countries where there is any question about the vote's fairness, to provide monetary aid to fledgling democracies and to strengthen the international system for guaranteeing civil rights...
...made aid to Pakistan conditional upon the granting of civil rights to the Pakistani people. Bhutto also noted that in last year's elections, a coalition of democratic leaders went to oversee the voting and ensure its fairness...
Until recently, few city leaders dared to criticize Barry publicly. Many blame the divisive question of race for the silence. "What he creates is a Teflon coating," explains Washington Post columnist Juan Williams, author of Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965. "If you're white, you can't say it. If you're black, you can't say it. In this town, who does that leave?" Race has helped and hindered Barry. Explains friend Carl Johnson: "He's always operating off the backdrop that he's a black male, that he's not supposed...
What happened to the promise of Marion Barry, the fire-snorting civil rights leader? Some say the promise never existed, that all along he was an opportunist obsessed with power. Others shrug and wonder if he simply traded in his civil rights merit badges for the good life. Perhaps the passion for power simply overwhelmed his compassion for the powerless. Yet he bristles at talk of promises lost. "I reject all of that because the things I was fighting for when I came into Washington were justice, equality, fairness, for blacks to get into certain positions of responsibility, to make...
...million of undelivered equipment, mainly electronics gear to improve the performance of F-8 fighter planes. Bush also authorized the Immigration and Naturalization Service to extend the visas of Chinese students in the U.S., many of whom are afraid to go home. Later in the week, as outright civil war seemed to threaten, the State Department urged all Americans in China to get out, and made that an order for families and dependents of its diplomats. By week's end some 7,300 of the roughly 8,800 U.S. citizens in China had been evacuated, many by hastily arranged charter...