Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Stalin, and some feared that this would be accompanied by an increase in repression. They pointed to the gradual refurbishing of the dictator's image as a wartime leader, particularly in such military memoirs as Marshal Georgy Zhukov's. They also noted that the growing movement for civil rights and for increased intellectual freedom in the Soviet Union has led to the arrest and trial of writers and religious dissenters, the harsh treatment of some minorities and cruel treatment of political prisoners...
...CONTINUE DEVLIN'S UPBRINGING IN THE ARMAGH GAOL. Partisan Catholics punctuated her defense in Londonderry's squat Victorian courthouse with foot stomping and applause. Moderates on both sides feared a new outburst of violence when the trial of Bernadette Devlin, the 22-year-old British M.P. and civil rights firebrand, came to an end last week. To their relief, the fragile peace that has prevailed between Northern Ireland's Catholics and Protestants since last August's rioting was preserved...
Another factor in Londonderry's continued calm was the presence of 6,000 British troops. Most important, however, is that the Catholic minority, outnumbered 2,000,000 to 1,000,000, is well on the way to winning most of its civil rights goals-at least on paper. A rule that gave property owners extra votes has been eliminated. A nonpartisan commission has been appointed to study Londonderry's public housing, long allocated on the basis of political patronage. The "B-specials," an almost exclusively Protestant force of part-time cops, have been disarmed. They will eventually...
...Birmingham's black cemeteries. In his decision, Federal Judge Seybourn Lynne cited a Supreme Court ruling last month that desegregated a neighborhood-owned swimming club in Fairfax County, Va. (TIME, Dec. 26). Both cases, said Lynne, provide examples of restrictive covenants that were outlawed by the Civil Rights Act of 1866. Thus, more than a century after the Civil War, Elmwood will have a black soldier resting alongside the whites who died defending slavery (among other things) in the Confederacy...
...organizing community action groups in poor neighborhoods. "In a sense, Saul brought me up," he says, "and I finally had to leave home." Starting at the Chicago Daily News, he earned a reputation as a first-class, if distressingly partisan reporter. Out of two assignments, the universities and the civil rights movement in the South, Von Hoffman wrote perceptive books and landed a job on the Post in 1966. "But there was always a question," he says, "of what to do with this idiot who seemed incapable of writing what fit into their definition of straight news...