Word: civilizer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chiefs questioned the political wisdom of intervening in what they considered an Arab civil war and reasoned that the cost to the U.S. in terms of Arab enmity would not justify trying to save Hussein. On military grounds, they considered landlocked Jordan a logistical nightmare. Moreover, at the height of the crisis, the Sixth Fleet had no way of transporting Marines into Jordan by helicopter; Guam and its choppers were still five days to the west. Militarily, however, the Chiefs had little objection to providing Hussein's troops with carrier-based tactical air support...
Young started a voter registration drive in Thomasville, Ga., only to have counterdemonstrating Ku Klux Klan members thwart his campaign. When the civil rights movement gained momentum in the early '60s, Young joined King and the S.C.L.C...
...gentry upset over the erosion of their ancient values. The Fifth also has a black minority (one-third of the voters) divided between slums as desperate as any city's, and a middle-class area of preachers and teachers centered around the Atlanta University complex. Now a black civil rights leader has a good chance to represent the Fifth and become the first Georgia black in Congress since Reconstruction...
SELDOM has a newly arrived diplomat presented credentials under conditions as bizarre as those that faced U.S. Ambassador L. Dean Brown in Amman last week. Brown, who had been pinned down for seven days in the beleaguered American embassy as civil war raged outside, clambered aboard a Jordanian armored personnel carrier and was whisked to Al-Hummar Palace on the fringe of the city. There, King Hussein accepted the envoy's credentials and discussed emergency U.S. assistance for Jordan. The fact that the King was on hand and receiving ambassadors indicated how the struggle was going. During ten days...
Outlook for Hussein. For the King, his clouded victory in the civil war could well prove a Pyrrhic one. The fedayeen are too strongly entrenched throughout the Arab world for Hussein to eliminate them. Never a favorite among his fellow Arab rulers, the King has now lost almost all support. Palestinians living under Israeli occupation on the Jordan's west bank last week talked proudly of "our revolution." Algeria and Libya, at one point during the civil war, made moves to join on the side of the fedayeen. Libya also cut off its annual $25.2 million subsidy to Jordan...