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Authors: James T. Patterson
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U.N. inspectors,
236
U.N. peacekeepers,
339
U.N. Security Council,
232
,
400
,
400
n
32
Underclass,
39
,
297
,
308
Unemployment,
7
,
38
n
46,
63
,
97
,
163
,
308
,
357
Union.
See
labor unions United Airlines,
361
United States Olympic Committee.
See
USOC
United States v. Lopez,
366
United Steelworkers of America v. Weber,
27
n
37
Universities: affirmative action and,
28
–30,
29
n
41,
53
and inequalities in 1990s,
263
,
278
University of California Regents v. Bakke,
31
n
44
An Unmarried Woman,
53
Updike, John,
288
,
363
“Urban crisis,”
37
–44,
41
n
71
Urban deterioration,
15
Urban League,
243
U.S.: nuclear weapons and,
4
,
102
,
108
,
116
,
118
,
121
,
123
,
196
,
205
,
229
,
336
Soviet Union détente with,
4
,
102
–4
U.S. Congress,
52
,
81
,
85
–88
U.S. Constitution: 2000 election and,
398
,
415
–18,
415
n
60
crisis of,
2
survival of,
9
U.S. Department of Defense,
60
,
208
,
382
U.S. Department of Energy,
175
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
329
U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare,
22
U.S. Department of Treasury,
335
U.S. House of Representatives,
61
,
85
U.S. Senate,
82
,
85
U.S. Supreme Court: 2000 election and,
414
–19,
416
nn
63–64,
417
n
65
affirmative action and,
xii
,
27
,
35
,
113
Civil Rights Movement and,
15
Clinton and,
388
conservative balance of,
2
decisions of,
67
,
83
,
118
,
182
,
182
n
92,
241
,
313
,
313
n
57,
366
nominees of,
242
–44,
330
,
330
n
35,
367
right of privacy advanced by,
47
school prayers and,
142
USOC (United States Olympic Committee),
278
U.S.S.
Cole,
380
,
384
USSR.
See
Soviet Union
Vance, Cyrus,
121
–23,
125
–26,
335
“Vast right-wing conspiracy,”
324
,
390
Veterans Administration,
38
Viacom,
285
Victoria Secret stores,
178
Vietnam: American humiliation in,
xi
,
3
Clinton and,
368
cost of,
65
draft evaders and,
121
Ford and,
98
–102
war lost in,
7
Vietnam Memorial,
183
Viguerie, Richard,
132
Viking I and II,
60
Violence,
40
–44,
41
n
74,
304
Volcker, Paul,
148
,
162
Voting,
70
,
149
,
149
n
105,
243
,
253
,
258
,
265
,
324
,
396
,
412
,
413
,
413
nn
56–57,
416
,
418
–20
Voting Rights Act of 1965,
15
,
18
Voyager I and II,
60
Wall Street,
186
Wallace, George,
131
The Wall Street Journal,
132
Wal-Mart,
356
Walsh, Lawrence,
211
–13
Walt Disney Company,
285
Walters, Barbara,
399
War(s): Civil,
337
Cold,
xi
,
xii
,
4
,
60
,
99
,
102
–4,
123
,
124
,
153
,
194
–96,
216
–17,
425
“Culture,”
xii
,
3
,
12
,
260
,
264
–65,
265
n
31,
269
,
274
Gulf,
xii
,
201
,
230
–38,
234
n
38,
235
n
39,
336
Yom Kippur,
7
,
97
).
See also
Vietnam; World War II
War on Poverty,
xi
,
95
War Powers Act,
84
,
86
,
98
Ward’s Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio,
241
n
51
Warren Commission Report of 1964,
72
,
92
,
276
Warren, Earl,
136
Washington, Harold,
170
Washington Post,
181
Washington, Walter,
16
Water projects and dams,
112
–13
Watergate: burglary in,
1
,
72
Republicans and,
79
“Watergate babies,”
84
Watt, James,
176
–77
Weapons.
See also
Nuclear
weapons: assault,
331
,
331
n
36
chemical,
230
Weather Underground,
77
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services,
242
n
56
Weinberger, Caspar,
193
–94,
200
,
206
,
209
–10,
213
,
214