Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fishing sounds less barbaric than gunning down Bambi's mother, the Cape Cod National Seashore might be a prime choice for hooking bluefish, striped bass, mackerel, or albacore. And one can head off with bait and tackle to Thoreau's old haunt, Walden Pond, to ponder the incompatability of civil disobedience and Ad Board restrictions on in-room Glocks...
...Cellucci's latest ads, which ridicules Harshbarger for defending the civil rights of practicing witches in Salem, Mass., and not putting up Christmas decorations in his office, exemplifies how this campaign has deteriorated...
...protests are the opening salvo in what promises to be a hardball campaign to force the Atlanta-based chain to stop selling products made from old-growth wood. The environmentalists threaten to follow up with newspaper ads, frequent pickets and civil disobedience at selected stores around the U.S.--unless the company agrees. "Home Depot is the biggest old-growth retailer in the world," says Randall Hayes, president of the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), a leader of the campaign. "Stopping them from selling old growth is the most important thing we can do to save these ancient cathedral forests and these...
Democrat WAYNE OWENS heads a Middle East peace center; DON EDWARDS serves on various civil-liberties boards; and CARLOS MOORHEAD is active with several foundations. Democratic stalwart JACK BROOKS manages his financial interests, and the G.O.P.'s LAWRENCE HOGAN has written a book, The Osage Indian Murders: A True Crime Story...
DIED. CLARK CLIFFORD, 91, consummate Washington insider; in Bethesda, Md. Tall, elegant and impeccably attired, Clifford advised four Democratic Presidents, using a knack for crystallizing issues to advocate causes from civil rights to environmental protection. An architect of Harry S Truman's 1948 election victory, he later counseled winding down the Vietnam War as Lyndon Johnson's Defense Secretary. Says TIME's Hugh Sidey: "He had a genius for reducing things to their simplest terms but fell to a tragic and false sense of invulnerability." Clifford's chairmanship of a bank embroiled in international scandal led to 1992 criminal charges...