Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Countryman said last night that the bill's vague terminology poses grave dangers to civil liberties in at least three areas...
...Civil rights and militant groups attacked a proposal contained in a confidential memorandum to the President on proper Administration stance toward the problems of blacks. As leaked to the press, the memorandum suggested a policy of "benign neglect" toward blacks, and urged the President instead to pay more attention to low-income and working-class whites...
...Yoruba spoke with mingled admiration and apprehension. Three years ago the Ibos established the breakaway nation of Biafra and precipitated Black Africa's worst civil war. When the war ended last January, close to 2,000,000 of them were dead or missing, Biafran Leader Odumegwu Ojukwu was headed for exile in the Ivory Coast, and the Ibo homeland was a shambles. But with the armistice six months old this week, the Ibos appear well on the way to reviving. "They have not been conquered," said the Yoruba. "They have merely cleared the decks to build anew...
...textbook answers of the Baltimore Catechism on which she had been raised. Listening to her children, Francine decided that they were learning nothing she could not accept. She then learned of a new tribe of radical Catholics: priests, nuns and laymen who were challenging both civil and ecclesiastical law in the name of a higher commitment to God. Divine Disobedience is a detailed, empathetic account of three focal points of this new Christianity. It is couched in the measured prose of The New Yorker, where most of the book first appeared. It is also-although the thought is never explicitly...
...article as an outline for her book that became a bestseller in 1963, The American Way of Death. Miss Mitford has since written another book, The Trial of Dr. Spock, and turns out several magazine articles a year. She is currently preparing a piece for Saturday Review on the civil rights of prisoners. "I don't think of myself as a muckraker," she insists. "One just sort of falls into these articles...