Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This semester Franklin taught a Social Studies junior tutorial on cultural, religious, and ethnic differences in Middle Eastern societies throughout history...
...significant escalation of the bitter three-year civil war in which more than 3,000 people have been killed. "These attacks," said an official of the National Security Ministry on TV following the second bombing, "indicate the group is no longer interested in a peaceful settlement of the ethnic problem...
Even where the societies are booming again, however, the conventional lines of separatism are being erased, and an atmosphere of constraint and cautious adherence to more stringent rules pervades most houses. Virtually all national fraternities and sororities have stripped from their charters any ethnic or religious bars to membership. Some 18 states have passed laws forbidding dangerous or degrading hazing, and colleges and Greek societies have added their own toughened antihazing regulations. To comply with 21-or-over liquor laws already adopted in 38 states, many campuses require notification of college authorities plus the guarantee of a sober, drinking...
...accord, drafted with U.S. help following the Nazi Holocaust, makes the mass murder of national, ethnic, racial or religious groups an international crime. Over the years, U.S. opponents of the treaty, most of them Senate conservatives, have said they had no quarrel with its sentiments but argued that the pact would permit foreigners to meddle in American domestic affairs. Last May the Senate passed a resolution that allows the U.S. to exempt itself from World Court jurisdiction over treaty cases. That provided the cover Congress needed and finally cleared the way for the U.S. officially to endorse...
Shcharansky's compassion for other persecuted ethnic and religious groups in the Soviet Union is strong. He shared cells during his years in prison with Russian Orthodox believers, Lithuanian, Estonian and Ukrainian nationalists. Since he has been in the West, he has already begun to speak out for the rights of various persecuted peoples...