Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...holocaust in Nigeria [Jan. 26], with its 2,000,000 dead, is testimony to the white Christian dominance of world affairs. The Africans have been subject to white colonial dominance for centuries. When they were finally granted independence, they were ill prepared for it. The so-called civilized nations sold 20th century arms to both sides in a cruel and meaningless civil war. Now that the war has ended, Christianity demands charity and compassion. What hypocrisy...
...Facing opposition to the entire section, Senator Robert Griffin won its inclusion by altering its language but not its impact. The new wording requires that agents applying to a court for "no-knock" authorization must convince a judge that the drugs will definitely be destroyed. Still, the provision raises civil-liberties questions about a citizen's right to protection from unreasonable search and seizure...
...Nigerian government (relief planes, for instance, were charged landing fees of up to $450), the effort was achieving some success. As work progressed, General Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria's military leader, answered questions from TIME Correspondent James Wilde. In his first individual interview since the end of the civil war, Gowon maintains a determinedly optimistic and perhaps unrealistic view of Nigeria's chances of restoring unity. He also displays a prickly sensitivity about intervention by outsiders, even when their chief concern seems to be helping his country toward recovery. Excerpts...
...even the most incurable optimists expected, including myself. There are no mass reprisals, no animosity, no vindictive measures. Left to ourselves, without any outside interference, our problems will be soon and well settled in our own uniquely African manner. Our experience has a lot in common with the American Civil War. The contrasts are, however, more striking. The old divisions in America are still there-between Yankee and Rebel, Northerner and Southerner, industrialist and planter, white and black. We do not have such sharp divisions. Nobody can suggest that by this time next century we shall still be struggling with...
Smaller Aims. Composer Floyd, now 43, emerged 15 years ago when he wrote Susannah, a retelling of the biblical story of Susannah "and the elders. Thereafter, he reached higher and sagged lower. Emily Brontë's Withering Heights (1958) and the Civil War Reconstruction story of The Passion of Jonathan Wade (1962) demanded largeness, even grandiloquence. Floyd's talent lay in revealing smaller situations, personal relationships. Since John Steinbeck's interests were in much the same area, Floyd's selection of Of Mice and Men is a perceptive return to the type of work that made...