Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...downing of Iran Air Flight 655 by the cruiser U.S.S. Vincennes last July, a Pentagon investigation concluded that combat stress caused the ship's crew to mistake the civilian jetliner, carrying 290 passengers, for an Iranian fighter jet. Last week a panel of experts convened by the International Civil Aviation Organization reached a different verdict: the tragedy could have been averted if the American warship had been better prepared to communicate with commercial aircraft over the Persian Gulf...
...move is an important step in China's campaign to formalize the country's legal code and replace renzhi, the rule of men, with fazhi, the rule of law. Although the ancient Chinese developed a sophisticated civil service system, the prominence of law waxed and waned with the fortunes of China's Emperors. The Communists tried to install a Soviet-style system after the 1949 revolution, but the fledgling effort began to unravel during Chairman Mao's "anti-rightist" political campaign in the late 1950s. What little jurisprudence survived was virtually swept away during the tumultuous Cultural Revolution...
...KING YEARS, 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster; $24.95). A biography as social history puts Martin Luther King Jr. at the center of the American revolution in race relations that began with sit-ins and Freedom Rides and ended with President Lyndon B. Johnson maneuvering a stalled civil rights bill through Congress...
...group, these new Black literary theorists went to first-rate colleges or graduate schools in the formative period of Afro-American Studies during the late 1960s and early 1970s. They are familiar with both the practical politics of the Civil Rights movement and the rarefied academic politics of the university...
Rampersad, whose recent biography of Langston Hughes is "the founding work in Afro-American literary biography," according to University of Pennsylvania Professor Houston Baker, is part of a new generation of Black scholars, educated in top-flight universities around the period of the Civil Rights movement and the student anti-war movement...