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Dates: during 1960-1969
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None of this should be taken too easily for granted in a world where Flemings still battle Walloons in Belgium, French Canadians are still at odds with British Canadians, and Indians of different faiths still slaughter one another by the thousands. Says Professor Daniel Moynihan, director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies: "We are the only nation in the world that has seriously undertaken to establish a biracial democracy. We have shown a fantastic capacity to absorb an incredible range of ethnic groups. If this looked easy, the world is beginning to learn it is damn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE NEW MELTING POT | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

Senior defenseman Chip Charlie Scammon capped the slaughter a minute later, with Smith and assisted by Smith and sophomore George Murphy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sextet Routs Bowdoin; First Line Scores Five | 12/1/1966 | See Source »

...four ministers were moved to different jobs, and in the process she rid herself of a portfolio that she had inherited unwillingly two weeks ago. It was the important Home Ministry, from which she had removed Gulzarilal Nanda for his failure to block the violent Hindu demonstrations against cow slaughter that recently erupted near Parliament. Now she passed the powerful post to Y. B. Chavan, 53, the former Defense Minister. In so doing, she also created a powerful potential rival for the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: A Show of Independence | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

They should have tossed in a towel. A barrage of punches battered Williams down for the fourth time as the third round started, and Referee Harry Kessler stopped the slaughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prizefighting: Skinning the Cat | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

...week India's sacred animal brought not pity but violence to the very doorstep of government. The occasion was a rally of 125,000 Hindus, who had come from all over India to pressure the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi into enacting a national ban on cattle slaughter. Converging on a traffic circle near Parliament, the demonstrators at first listened peacefully to speeches. Then a sadhu (Hindu holy man), a member of Parliament, sprang onto the speaker's stand. He had just been ushered out of the Lok Sabha, he cried, because he had demanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: The Casualty List | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

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