Word: kent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Viet Nam War wound down, the campuses and ghettos cooled; the riots after the Cambodian invasion and the killings at Kent State were the last major eruption. Quiet set in partly from sheer exhaustion
Jill Davis, a vivacious office worker from West London, flew home with the memory of 24 hours spent inside a Roman tomb with her boy friend while Turks shelled the area; the couple feared they would be buried alive. Twins Amanda and Penny Mieras of Kent spent their 16th birthday using lipstick, eye shadow and a bed sheet to make a Union Jack to identify them as neutrals. U.S. Businessman John Mazzarella of New York City was among a group of tourists forced to remain inside the Ledra Palace Hotel in Nicosia as hos tages of the Greeks against Turkish...
...Nixon Administration almost five years ago. He spent most of 1970 traversing the South for HEW, helping complete the integration of public schools. As Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department's civil rights division since 1973, he played a key role in reopening the Kent State investigation and started an Office of Indian Rights. Pottinger points out that in the last 18 months, "we've filed more [civil rights] suits than in any comparable period in the division's history...
...political career. As a junior fellow at Harvard, he was named the youngest member of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest in 1970, but soon joined the White House enemies list for wondering aloud whether Nixon's reference to "campus bums" had encouraged the killings at Kent State. Democrat Rhodes soon afterward quit his studies and in 1972 won election to the state legislature from Pittsburgh. He is virtually assured of re-election this year...
...TERRI KENT...