Word: equalizers
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...exodus, under the command of Lieut. General Michael S. Davison, was proceeding in textbook style. The remaining 12,000 U.S. fighting men in Cambodia were exiting in about equal numbers by helicopter, armored vehicle and foot. They were under strict orders to evacuate all their equipment in order to prevent the Communists from using any of it if and when they try to reoccupy the gutted sanctuaries in eastern Cambodia. Davison ordered the emplacement of numerous fire-support bases just inside South Viet Nam to shield the last men coming out with an umbrella of artillery shells...
...must live with tension in Walzer's state. They work simultaneously to raise the consciousness of the oppressed, keep open the possibilities of democratic action, and yet accept concrete improvements which may dampen that consciousness. All disclaimers aside, Walzer in fact asks frustrated activists to accept an incremental politics. "Equal rights cannot be won by a revolutionary attack on the social structure within which rights are being sought." Only a truly drastic oppression generates total freedom from the restraints of civility. Formally equal in law, the American poor and black have incurred some obligations to civility...
...British physicist and chief coordinator of the International Geophysical Year, I.G.Y. 1957-58; of a heart attack; in Boulder, Colo. Widely acclaimed for his studies of the sun, most notably his theory explaining how solar eruptions cause magnetic storms and auroral displays on earth. Chapman displayed an almost equal genius as manager and coordinator of I.G.Y., which engaged many thousands of scientists in a worldwide cooperative study of planet Earth...
Women are equal to men in the political, economic, cultural and social fields...
...dissatisfaction with the chairman. Various proposals were on the floor about what the future of the movement should involve. The majority of speakers seemed to be in favor of a resolution introduced by Jerry Gordon and Jim Lafferty. Members of the audience were calling for equal time for those who wanted to speak for and against the proposal. One man had been trying to raise a point of order for fifteen minutes. The chairman said he would not stop in midbreath to deal with...