Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bernardi said the jobs in the general counsel's office are civilian, not military, and the offending Navy regulations apply only to uniformed personnel. The Navy counsel told Bernardi that other Department of Defense regulations about homosexuality that did apply to civilians had been superseded by Congress' Civil Service Reform Act, Bernardi added...
...back to Africa. Make sure it's your history recalled by your grandmother and no one will know the difference because you are its living witness. Handlin says Haley really added yeast to his story when he devoted "85 per cent of his attention to the period before the Civil War, the time least subject to reader verification, the time most readily freighted with nostalgia and fantasy for their benefit...
...references to the way those Africans behaved: all available evidence proves Africans had no concept of Africa, nor did they regard all Africans as brothers. Also, according to Handlin, Haley's Kunta Kinte is not a man of the 18th-century West African coast, but a 20th-century civil rights activist...
Twelve Harvard students will file a lawsuit on Thursday against the state of New Hampshire and its state police, charging that the students were "clubbed and maced" in an unnecessarily violent "violation of their civil right to protest" at the Seabrook nuclear power plant, Kevin Powers, attorney for the group and member of the Seabrook Coalition for Direct Action, said yesterday...
...resembles a real killer, who is thrown into such a panic that he considers informing on the others. Then the police launch Operation Zebra: stopping and searching black youths who bear any likeness to the sketches. Overreacting to a desperate effort to deal with a genuine menace, the American Civil Liberties Union and various black groups indignantly denounce the police action as racist. In response to a lawsuit, Operation Zebra is declared unconstitutional, but under increasing pressure, the worried informer turns himself...