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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thrill-seekers clashed with the police in three days of rioting. Police arrested nearly 200. Local officials declared a state of emergency and enforced a curfew that prohibited more than five people's getting together on the streets after 9 p.m. Pennsylvania Governor Richard Thornburgh helped restore order by bringing another 500,000 gal. of gas into the area and imposing a statewide odd-even purchase system. Said Bristol Town ship Police Chief Richard Templeton: "We're sitting on a powder...
...Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee solved the shortage by simply ordering the Soviet oil industry to meet its quota by the end of the year. Whether that order will be fulfilled remains uncertain, but Pravda last week sounded a note familiar to Western readers: "Let every person who produces fuel or uses electrical or fuel energy ask himself: Has he done everything to raise production and avoid waste...
...Damascus radio, Syria's Interior Minister, Brigadier Adnan Dabbagh, accused the brotherhood of also carrying out a series of other political assassinations since 1975. He vowed that his government intended to "liquidate" the organization, which was formed in Egypt in 1928 for the purpose of imposing strict Islamic order on Muslim countries. Last week Syria announced that 15 members of the brotherhood had been executed for terrorist acts; all had been arrested prior to the Aleppo incident...
...question had long been unresolved, though it had deep implications for both employers and workers, as well as for U.S. society at large: Is it fair to discriminate against whites in order to help the longtime victims of discrimination, notably blacks and other disadvantaged minorities? Last week, ruling in the crucial case of United Steelworkers of America vs. Weber, the U.S. Supreme Court gave an answer. Employers can indeed choose to give special job preference to blacks without fear of being harassed by reverse-discrimination suits brought by other employees. The ruling was a strong endorsement of affirmative-action programs...
...Revolution that focused the energies of Soviet art. The outsiders now became insiders; their opposition to the old order and its tastes was crystallized on a political level that, as artists, they could enthusiastically serve. But they were not content to be dandies like Marinetti. They wanted to construct. Hence their special relationship to the young Communist state. Today no revolutionary government that had just seized control of a vast, economically foundering country would bother with artists or art schools. The U.S.S.R. did so after the Revolution, thanks to two circumstances that hold true in no modern capitalist state. Print...