Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Mardian, along with Assistant Attorney General Jerris Leonard and HEW Civil Rights Chief J. Stanley Pottinger...
While the Conservatives celebrated their unexpected victory, Prime Minister Edward Heath formed a government with great dispatch. Between a party for his campaign workers and a speech to civil servants about his plans for streamlining the governmental system, Heath presided over a 50-minute Cabinet meeting and pondered the legislative priorities that would become the framework of the Queen's speech at the opening of Parliament this week. Then, at the helm of his sloop Morning Cloud, he competed in a 60-mile race around the Isle of Wight...
Many Russians would feel less unsettled by the new portrayal of Stalin if the present regime of Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin were not embarked upon a campaign of selective repression against intellectual dissidents. In the wake of arrests and harassment of outstanding writers, scientists and civil libertarians, some Russians fear, the more favorable official view of Stalin will lessen the pressures on the government to refrain from the harsh practices that so severely scarred his 27-year rule of Russia...
Anger and Depression. Student demonstrators turned out to be no tiny radical minority. Questioned before the Cambodian incursion, 42% of the students polled said that they had participated in antiwar protests, nearly twice as many as had joined civil rights actions. Out of 100 antiwar demonstrators picked at random, 13 called themselves Republicans, 20 were Democrats, 62 were independents and only five considered themselves radicals. Of the 5,000 students polled, however, more than 40% had altered their political loyalties because of the war. Of these, only 7% increased their commitment to one of the two major parties, the remaining...
...physical bond. In its view, it is a sacrament: a spiritual union that bestows supernatural gifts on the marriage partners. Moreover, it is indissoluble. As Jesus Christ told the Pharisees, "What God has joined together, let no man put asunder." Divorce, the church concludes, is an evil: civil divorce, but not remarriage, is permitted only to those Catholics who have been allowed to live apart by ecclesiastical courts. For a Catholic who wants to remarry and remain in the church, the only escape from an intolerable marriage is to receive a declaration of nullity from a church tribunal-a decree...