Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like an anti-Soviet gesture. "Eastern Europe, after all," says one man close to the President, "is central to the issue of East-West peace." In fact, if there is any likelihood of detente with Russia, with the upcoming disarmament talks as a first step, Nixon's next major mission may well be to Moscow...
...major impediment to the Mexican American is his Spanish language, because it holds him back in U.S. schools. Mexican Americans average eight years of schooling, two years less than Negroes and a full four years less than whites. Often they are forced to learn English from scratch in the first grade, and the frequent result is that they become not bilingual but nearly nonlingual. In Texas, 40% of Chicanos are considered functionally illiterate. In Los Angeles, only an estimated 25% can speak English fluently. Chicano children in some rural areas are still punished for speaking Spanish in school. Only this...
...price on the possible long-range damage. Even though the swift-flowing Rhine is largely self-cleansing, it may take years before the river restocks itself with fish. There was, however, one possible benefit from last week's case of poisoning. It might well shock the four major Rhine countries-West Germany, The Netherlands, France and Switzerland-into adopting anti-pollution controls that could change the river back from a septic tank into the lovely waterway it once...
Each fresh stage of violence in the Middle East has been marked by mu ual vengeance for major provocations by each side. Last week was no exception. Both sides went beyond their now familiar tactics of artillery duels along the Suez Canal and Israeli air force sweeps of Arab fedayeen positions in the Jordan River valley. In a new in tensification of their struggle, the Arabs and Israelis launched a damaging string of commando assaults...
...walls and in buildings, visitors to Nigeria abruptly encounter the image of the leader of black Africa's most pop ulous nation. From posters the boyishly handsome face of Major General Yakubu Gowon, 34, peers at passersby...