Word: accession
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Here at Harvard students have raised the issues that black people are being denied equal access to jobs on construction sites, and that the job category of "painters' helper" has in effect relegated blacks (and subsequently waites) to a classification in which they earn less money than "painters" for doing the same work...
...Jordan? They were conquered by the invading Jordan army in 1948, contrary to the United Nations partition resolution of 1947, which established an independent Arab and Jewish state (and set up Jerusalem as an international city). The Jordanians annexed the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and then refused us access to our holy sites. Now all of a sudden, after they decided to attack in Jerusalem again in 1967, their so-called historical rights of 19 years are being honored, as if this kingdom of Jordan were a nation that had lived here for two millenniums...