Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Sihanouk "war of liberation" in the northeast. French plantation managers report that Communists are recruiting some plantation workers and arming civilians. Still, allied units have yet to encounter any "guerrillas" in Cambodia. As Sirik Matak told TIME'S Kraar: "There are no signs of a civil war in Cambodia, no signs at all." There is some question, besides, about the genuine enthusiasm in Peking and Hanoi for setting up and supporting a puppet government. Lon Nol disclosed last week that secret Chinese emissaries tried to strike a deal with him for renewal of the old sanctuary arrangement. Only when...
...Phnom-Penh has lessened, but the graceful, Gallic-flavored capital still has the air of an antic Alamo. Soviet-made heavy artillery pieces stare out over the empty highways to the south. No one is allowed to enter or leave the city from dusk to dawn without special permission. Civil servants come to work in khakis, including Deputy Premier Sirik Matak, and battalions of bureaucrats spend afternoons drilling in the city parks. As they roll through the streets in their commandeered trucks and buses, Cambodian soldiers wave to the cheering populace. The martial fever is such that the regime...
...every legal wrong possible during his 16-to 20-hour working day. After clerking for Justice Felix Frankfurter and serving a year as Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Columbia, he began teaching criminal law at Pennsylvania while bouncing from police court to Supreme Court in defense of civil rights workers. While still in his 20s, he distinguished himself as a legal scholar with a steady flow of law review articles...
Every Last Penny. Reuther helped to lead the 1963 civil rights march on Washington, spoke out almost alone in labors high command against the Viet Nam War, strongly supported Cesar Chavez's grape strikers. He bubbled with social ideas: for a national medical-insurance plan and for a program to build low-cost housing for the poor, using assembly-line techniques. At the end of his life, he was talking about adding some form of pollution control to the demands that the U.A.W. will serve on the auto companies when bargaining begins this summer. Not all his enthusiasms bore...
...labor movement, Reuther's death may bring a period of surface calm. Although he helped mightily to negotiate the A.F.L.-C.I.O. merger in 1955, Reuther was a constant disturber of the peace within the federation, needling its officials to conduct bigger organizing campaigns and do more to help civil rights and other causes. In exasperation over the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s slowness to heed these pleas-and no doubt in frustration over his own dimming chances to become A.F.L.-C.I.O. president -he led the U.A.W. out of the union federation in 1968. Last year he forged a bizarre combination...