Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION...
...objecting to Blackmun. Even Joseph Rauh Jr., vice chairman of Americans for Democratic Action and a slashing foe of the first two nominees, conceded last week that "President Nixon's nomination at long last of a judicial moderate validates the liberal efforts against Judges Haynsworth and Carswell." Civil rights groups also seem pleased with Blackmun. John Pemberton Jr., executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, praised the 61-year-old federal judge as a man with "a capacity for objectivity and fairness in the highest degree, combined with a high intellect and sharply honed legal mind...
...Similar civil libertarianism has led Douglas to oppose legal curbs on pornography-not, as he reiterated in a recent dissent, "because I relish 'obscenity' but because I think the First Amendment bars all kinds of censorship." The court, he believes, is not constitutionally required to take on the dilemmas of acting as a board of supercensors. Strictly interpreting the constitutional walls between church and state, Douglas concurred in the court's 1962 decision banning public school prayers, but would have gone farther and erased "In God We Trust" from coins, and ended the prayers that begin sessions...
...forced labor camps or summarily shot. It was Lenin who started the campaign of harassment against well-to-do peasants, which escalated into open warfare when thousands of detachments of Bolsheviks forcibly requisitioned grain and other products. It was Lenin who, after the 1920 Bolshevik victory in the civil war, turned his full attention to building the gigantic machinery of rule that served as the instrument of Russia's new autocracy and, ultimately, of Stalin's tyranny...
...early-morning clash between police and anti-ROTC demonstrators helped to prompt what may be the nation's first federal-grand-jury investigation of a campus protest. The jury, which last week heard testimony from faculty, students and newsmen, is trying to determine whether the protesters violated the civil rights of ROTC students. The jurors will also consider whether a fire that leveled the university's small Army ROTC building in February violated a federal law that protects national defense installations...