Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...four different types of black leadership, a majority of blacks make the distinction that although militants may build up black pride, they are not necessarily the most effective. At the top of the list are "elected black officials," cited by 71% as "very effective." They are followed by "civil rights leaders, such as the N.A.A.C.P.," viewed as "very effective" by 67%, although by only 56% of the under-21 group. Behind them are "black ministers and religious leaders," given a "very effective" rating by 56 percent. At the bottom of the list-despite "pride" expressed in the Panthers in another...
Among the brave band of Russians who campaign openly for greater civil liberties in the Soviet Union, there is no more vivid personality than former Major General Pyotr Grigorenko. The 62-year-old war hero is an outspoken defender of the sovereignty of Czechoslovakia, the rights of the U.S.S.R.'s Crimean Tartar minority and other causes. His distinguished war record, which won him an Order of Lenin, and the fact that he taught cybernetics at the Frunze Academy, the Russian equivalent of West Point, made him a particular embarrassment to Soviet authorities. They cashiered him from the army...
...concern up to now has not been to formulate needed programs but to deny power to extreme right-and left-wing parties-particularly the Communists, now the second biggest party. The Vatican meddles clumsily in domestic politics. One of the hottest issues in Italy today is whether to allow civil divorces; a bill approving divorce has already cleared the Chamber of Deputies and is now before the Senate. Pope Paul delayed the formation of a new government by several weeks by openly and vigorously opposing the bill...
...single screening of the documentary King: A Filmed Record . . . Montgomery to Memphis raised about $3,500,000 to continue the late Dr. Martin Luther King's civil rights and antipoverty campaigns. The film drew more than 700,000 patrons at theaters in the U.S. and abroad. Among them, at the Fox Theater in downtown Atlanta, were Mrs. Coretta King and her four children: Yolanda, 15, Martin, 12, Bernice, 7, and Dexter, 9, who shows an unmistakable resemblance to his father...
...batten on the central city's cultural assets, transit lines and white-collar industries (finance, law, publishing). Meanwhile the city gets poorer. Moreover, the constant outflow of whites and jobs leads, says Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame University and chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, "toward the tragedy of two separate societies. One is white and comfortable; the other black and poor...