Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Some years ago, Harvard's civil rights image needed some beefing up. The order went out from on top to hire more blacks. The Chase Manhattan Bank, and just about every other businessman around, sent out a similar order. So blacks were hired (by benevolent Harvard) to be painters...
...guarantee of free movement and security in out of and within the designated districts for all civilians and civil officials of the Saigon government...
Administration wants repression." Well that's either slander or stupidity. No citizen who respects the law need fear anything from this Government. No Administration is more committed to the civil rights of every American. But the President's definition of civil rights encompasses the right of black Americans to be secure in the central city, the right of small businessmen to be free of violence at the hands of drug addicts, and the right of women to be free to walk the streets and parks without being attacked or molested by hoodlums and thugs. Clearly those civil rights...
...authorities seized the three commandos. At week's end, there were still no charges placed against them ?partly, no doubt, because Nasser had welcomed the Athens hijackers to Cairo last July as "patriots." However, Egypt's semi-official newspaper Al Ahram pointedly noted that "the attack on international civil aviation does not encourage world feeling of solidarity with the Palestine cause...
...nearly 90% of the nation's lettuce during the summer months, decided to bargain with a union of their choosing. That was, understandably, not the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee. One of the valley's largest growers expressed its antipathy: "The Chavez movement is 90% religion and civil rights and 10% trade union." When the Teamsters reneged on the agreement, the farmers refused to negotiate with Chavez; and the biggest strike in the salad bowl since 1936 was called. Of 10,000 workers, 6,000 walked off of the fields. Half returned within a few days...