Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...first major test of George Bush's civil rights commitment reached the Oval Office last week in the form of a 30-page document. The Civil Rights Act of 1990 -- passed last week by overwhelming majorities in both houses of Congress -- seeks to strengthen protections against discrimination in the workplace, making it easier for minorities and women to prove civil rights violations against employers. But Bush is threatening to veto...
Throughout the controversy a long-standing Harvard policy that severely undermines students' civil rights escaped reconsideration. Three of the four most fundamental human rights, guaranteed to Americans in the First Amendment, are denied to students in this one administration fiat. These rights: speech, press and association are trampled upon by the University's policy on organizations...
FROM its beginnings, the gay movement has had a diversity of political affiliations. The gay identity and rights movement was born with the courageous participants of the Stonewall (1969) and Women's Movement in the 1970s and the earlier civil rights movements...
...Oregon chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, for one, is concerned about aspects of the case. In an amicus curiae brief, the chapter urged that charges involving "negligent" and "reckless" speech be dropped, reasoning that a finding for the plaintiff on those grounds could have a chilling effect on First Amendment freedoms. A.C.L.U. lawyer Michael H. Simon adds, however, that adequate proof that Tom Metzger intended to cause serious harm by sending agents to Oregon would void his concern...
...Bush inflicted so much unnecessary damage on himself? Part of the answer is that he has never had firm convictions on domestic issues; over the years he has altered his stance on abortion, civil rights and even supply-side economics when it was politically expedient to do so. Bush has always regarded domestic policy as "deep doo-doo," not to be stepped in if at all possible. Foreign affairs, on the other hand, he regards as his strongest suit. As Bush acknowledged at a White House press conference last week, "When you get a problem with the complexities that...