Word: civilizations
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Israeli intelligence concedes that it cannot be absolutely certain of detecting Iraqi missile preparations in advance. As a precaution, civil defense officials are bracing for a worst-case scenario in which 20 to 30 missiles hit the populated coastal region, causing thousands of casualties, before Israel can cripple Saddam's war machine...
...Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. "I am very much concerned at the shaky situation there," says Horst Teltschik, Kohl's top foreign policy adviser. "There is no stabilized democracy. They are in bad economic shape, and different ethnic groups are fighting again. What will we do when there are civil wars breaking...
Ronald Collins, a visiting associate law professor at Catholic University in Washington, has counted more than 600 cases in which the highest state courts have interpreted their states' constitutions to protect civil liberties more broadly than does the Supreme Court. About 60% of the decisions have come since 1980. What has made this movement possible is the long-standing legal principle that American states cannot provide less protection for individual $ rights than the U.S. Constitution, but they can provide more. And state decisions are immune from challenge at the federal level so long as they have an independent and adequate...
Liberal lawyers are frank about the reasons behind their change in venue. "I came face to face with Reagan's federal appointees and got tired of being kicked around," says Jim Harrington, legal director of the Texas Civil Rights Project. Harrington has not filed a major civil rights case in federal courts in the past seven years. Two years ago, though, he convinced the Texas Supreme Court that the state's constitutional right to privacy precluded mandatory lie-detector tests for state employees. And in 1984 he won the right to workers' compensation for itinerant field hands under a state...
...Charles Kwak '92, president of the Korean Student Association, said that if the tips system adversely affected Asian Americans, it was tantamount to "trying to institutionalize discrimination through some loopholes of Title VI" of the Civil Rights...