Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...That such a respected person as Leonard Bernstein would donate to the Black Panthers [Jan. 26] is unbelievable. He and other such people should be ashamed to give money to a group that is intent on destroying our Government. I don't believe the Black Panthers' civil liberties were violated. Since they are against our President and everything he stands for, why should they be protected by our Constitution...
...fueled the Nigerian civil war. The major fields were in what was Biafra, and on them rested the region's hopes of sustaining an independent economy. When the oilmen refused to pay revenues to the breakaway state, Biafran planes bombed rigs and installations. Biafran troops sabotaged pipelines and murdered an eleven-man Italian exploration crew. Nonetheless, except for one brief period when all of Nigeria's 263 wells were idle, production never dropped below 300,000 bbl. a day -just over one-half the prewar output. The revenue accrued to the government in Lagos, enabling...
...June, barring any last-minute hitches, Alaska Airlines will become the first non-Russian airline to fly tourists into Siberia. Last week Chairman Charles F. Willis Jr. received an all but final go-ahead for the flights from Intourist, the Soviet tourist agency. Washington's Civil Aeronautics Board has given its blessing for ten tourist flights next summer between Anchorage and Khabarovsk...
...This racist posture forces Harvard to show its true alliance with the oppressive forces of America. This alliance has been used to deny rights to African people, human and civil rights: it has been used to exploit their homeland and to maintain blacks in a condition of economic dependency." the statement said...
...economic). In helping to build the American labor movement, they gained a foothold for themselves and their families in the new land. As liberal activists, socialists, and Communists, many of them, together with their children, continued to participate to the full in the great struggles in this country for civil liberties, racial justice, and economic emancipation. It would be sad if the lessons of those struggles are now lost on their better-heeled grandchildren. For only now, when the economic position of most Jews (especially those at Harvard) is fairly secure, is it possible to forget that the liberation...