Restless Giant: The United States From Watergate to Bush v. Gore (83 page)

Saudi Arabia,
198
,
232
,
233
,
237
,
380
,
381

Saving Private Ryan,
364

Scalia, Antonin,
366

Schaeffer, Francis,
136

Schindler’s List,
287

Schlafly, Phyllis,
133
–34,
180

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.,
116
,
303
,
303
n
27

Schlesinger, James,
98
,
102
,
120

Scholastic Aptitude Test.
See
SAT

Schools: America and,
255

   busing and,
20
–23

   collapse of,
33
–35

   conditions of,
11
,
14

   demographics of,
19
,
21
–23,
37
–38

   grade inflation and,
33

   immigration and,
296
,
299

   prayer in,
104
,
142
,
222

   racial inequities in,
37

   SAT scores and,
33
,
34

   special education in,
36
,
36
n
57,
314

   spending for,
37

   suburbia and,
37
–38

Schroeder, Pat,
224

Schumacher, E. E.,
73

Schwarzenegger, Arnold,
285

Schwarzkopf, Norman,
234

Science, advances in,
58

Scorsese, Martin,
261

Scott, Hugh,
2

Scowcroft, Brent,
95
,
225

Screen Actors Guild,
129

Scud missiles,
234

SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative),
194
,
201
–2,
204
,
214
–17,
403

SDS (Students for a Democratic Society),
77
,
165

Seattle,
21
,
59

Second Vatican Council,
71
,
143

Secularization,
142

Segregation,
309

Seinfeld,
280
,
285
,
289

September
11
, 2001,
xii
,
12
,
73
,
384

Serbia,
368

Serbs, in Bosnia,
225
–26,
368
–71

Serrano, Andres,
261

Service jobs,
62
,
62
n
59

“Set-asides,”
15
,
24
,
113

Sex,
280

Sex and the City,
283

Sex discrimination,
52
,
244
,
271

Sexual preferences, in military,
328

Sexual revolution,
xii

   AIDS and,
45

   baby boomers and,
79

   birth control pills and,
47

   in central city areas,
46

   conservatives and,
48

   freedom and,
51

   health issues and,
45

   illegitimacy and,
48
–50,
51

   immorality and,
255

   movies and,
46

   pornography and,
48
,
267

   sex education and,
45
,
137
,
180
,
266

   TV and,
46

   women’s liberation and,
47

Sharon, Ariel,
207

Shaw, George Bernard,
202

Shepard, Matthew,
261

Shepard, Sam,
288

Shiites,
124
,
198
,
230
,
236
,
237
,
337

Shultz, George,
8
,
193
–94,
209
–10,
213

Shuttle test flight,
60

Sidey, Hugh,
94

Silence of the Lambs,
284

“Silicon Valley,”
59

Simon, Paul,
220

Simon, William,
97

Simpson, Nicole Brown,
310

Simpson, O. J.,
xii
,
293
,
310
–13,
313
n
56

Sinai Peninsula,
122
60 Minutes,
71
,
249

SLA (Symbionese Liberation Army),
77

“Slick Willie,”
320

Slouching Toward Gomorrah
(Bork),
254

S&Ls (savings-and-loans),
175
,
175
n
68,
186
,
247

Small Is Beautiful
(Schumacher),
73

Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Art,
262

Smoking,
183
,
183
n
94,
356
,
356
n
31

Social class,
44
,
308
,
315

Social policies, of Clinton,
321
–22,
331
,
342
,
372

Social problems,
268
–69,
348

Social Security: in 1970s,
66
,
67
,
90
,
113

   in 1980s,
57
,
163
–65,
164
nn
35–36

   in 1990s,
248
,
318
,
321
,
374
,
392
,
402

   in 2000s,
407

Social welfare,
86

Solidarity,
204
–5,
216

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr,
4

Somalia,
226
,
338
–39,
341

Somoza, Anastasio,
207

Sondheim, Stephen,
288

Souter, David,
242
–43,
417

South Africa,
104

South, economy and,
58
–59

South Park,
283

South Vietnam,
99
–102

Southeast Asia,
98
–102

Southern Baptists,
140
,
142
,
268

Soviet Union: Afghanistan invaded by,
xii
,
110
,
123
,
194

   Bush, George H. W. and,
228
–29

   Carter and,
122
–23

   Ford and,
99
,
102
–3

   implosion of,
xii
,
197

   nuclear weapons and,
196
,
215
,
336

   Reagan and,
194
–97,
201
–2,
204
–7,
213
–17

   Solzhenitsyn expelled by,
4

   U.S. détente with,
4
,
102
–4.
See also
Russia

Space contracts,
59

Space exploration: of Mars,
60

   Pentagon’s support of,
60

   Shuttle test flight and,
60

   Viking I and II and,
60

   Voyager I and II and,
60