Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those bare facts seemed suspicious enough in 1974 to touch off a series of newspaper and magazine articles by investigative reporters. The Silkwood case was quickly embraced by environmentalists, nuclear energy foes, feminists and civil libertarians. They saw the Kerr-McGee facility near Crescent, Okla., as an ugly symbol of an industry seeking profits while endangering its employees and nearby communities. Last week, for the first time, the case moved into a public courtroom. Silkwood's family is seeking $11.5 million in damages from Kerr-McGee for exposing her to dangerous levels of plutonium. Its other...
...police, in Chicago and elsewhere, say that thorough searches are often necessary in order to find weapons, drugs or dangerous objects a suspect may be hiding. But those who have gone through the experience for such things as traffic violations strongly disagree. With the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, 50 Jane Does with similar experiences filed a class-action suit this month asking the U.S. district court to restrict Chicago police from conducting strip-searches of women accused of nothing more serious than misdemeanors and traffic violations. A warrant would have to be obtained for such a search...
...religious leaders' hardening determination to reign-and the spreading uneasiness about this among their erstwhile allies against the Shah-promises trouble. One respected Iranian political analyst, Fariborz Atapour, has forecast that a civil war will begin within two weeks. Writing in the daily Tehran Journal, he complained, "We know that a new constitution is about to be imposed on us, but since we do not know what it contains we cannot contest it. We can merely protest against the undemocratic way that the entire revolutionary aftermath is being handled." Given the theocratic rule now taking shape in Iran, Atapour...
...monitor the Rhodesian vote. Moose said that the U.S. opposed the election because the Patriotic Front was excluded from it and the new government might not be supported by black Rhodesians or international opinion. In fact, under the new constitution, whites will still dominate the army, judiciary and civil service. Moose feared that the election might lead to an escalation of the guerrilla war and direct involvement by "outside powers," meaning Cuba and the Soviet Union...
...whom were charged with vandalism, a misdemeanor. This story took up only one column on page three of The Globe, under the headline "Guatemalan Family Flees." The Boston Herald American didn't carry the story at all. After pressure from a state representative and a lawyer from the Civil Liberties Union, Mayor White issued a statement "deploring" violence and reminding protesters that "such incidents do not occur everyday...