Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last fall Leach committed the heinous sin of persuading Congress to pass two bureaucracy-busting amendments to the Civil Service Reform Act. One requires the Government to reduce its civilian work force by Sept. 30 to the level of two years before and maintain it for three years-a cut of 29,000 employees. The second amendment orders the Administration to think up ways of shipping part of the Federal Government out of town...
...whites will still have a special status. Though they account for only 4% of the population, they are guaranteed 28 of the 100 seats in the parliament, and for ten years will have control, through a complex veto provision, over such vital areas as the judiciary, the civil service and the security forces. The whites are also guaranteed at least five of the new cabinet posts, presumably including one for Ian Smith...
Even as the election proceeded, Rhodesia's blacks were painfully aware of one grim fact of their country's life that would not soon be changed by the transition to majority government: it is they who have suffered most during the civil war, and their suffering will go on. Of those killed in the six years and four months of fighting so far, 97% have been blacks. They continue to die at a rate of 30 a day, double the casualty rate of a year ago when the "internal settlement" agreement was signed. Caught between the government forces...
...little promise that for a year no law firm would hire him. After an undistinguished career, he became a federal judge because of his capacities as a political fund raiser. Such are hardly the credentials for stature. But when the nation faced its gravest constitutional crisis since the Civil War, he provided a fresh instance of the American dictum: In times of extremity, men grow into their roles...
COLORADO--Federal marshals arrested at least 150 anti-nuclear activists trained in civil disobedience Sunday when the protesters marched in front of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant about 16 miles northwest of Denver. Rocky Flats is the nation's only producer of plutonium "triggers" for nuclear weapons...