Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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AMERICA failed the chances Cowan gave it. The liberal credo on which he was nurtured (described with almost poetic beauty in a passage about his childhood fantasies of stalwartly crushing Joe McCarthyism) went so deep that it inhibited his anger for years. He treats his involvement with the Civil Rights movement and the Peace Corps in Ecuador so thoroughly, tracing his individual frustration back to the power source that fundamentally opposes meaningful change, as to argue convincingly that the chance-giving approach must fail. The implications for those younger than Cowan bring to mind George Santayana's maxim that people...
...response to his decision, an alliance of seven opposition parties last week threatened to boycott the May 16 election if Balaguer did not resign before beginning his campaign. The President refused, bringing the island republic closer to chaos than it has been at any time since the 1965 civil...
Having taken care to renounce Trujillo before returning to the country in 1965, after 23,000 U.S. troops had brought an end to the bloody civil war, Balaguer won the 1966 election with an impressive 57% of the vote on a "peace and order" platform. Going into the 1970 election, he has the backing of most of the military and nearly all of the country's businessmen. In his 3½ years in office, he has curbed inflation, balanced the budget and attracted a modest but vital flow of foreign capital. He has even profited from the weather. Record...
...over in a matter of minutes. The police van braked to a stop, 40 civil guards in tan shirts and steel helmets jumped out and, while most of Lima slept through a foggy March dawn, Peru's leftist military junta took over two opposition newspapers, the morning Expreso and evening Extra. The remaining opposition Lima daily-La Tribuna-was then reduced to a mimeograph edition when the regime embargoed its presses...
...neither. Judges have sent delinquent youths to understaffed reform schools for terms far longer than the jail sentences that adults would have received for similar offenses. In most states, young people can be deemed delinquent if a "preponderance of the evidence" indicates their guilt-the same standard used in civil suits. Applying a three-year-old precedent that entitles juveniles to "the essentials of due process and fair treatment," a 5-to-3 majority of the court ruled that juveniles must be proved guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt," which is the more rigorous standard used when adults are prosecuted. Burger...