Word: labeled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gang Warfare. Contributing to the mood of apprehension is the continuing problem of almost casual mayhem that police label "gang warfare." Violence among the city poor is neither new nor unique to blacks; even the affluent Mafia still practices assassination. But in the taut atmosphere of today's big city, such killings add to the tension, invite police crackdowns and make for scare headlines. This year alone in Chicago, 33 people have died and 252 have been injured in gang warfare. In Philadelphia, there were 30 such killings in all of 1968, and 24 so far this year...
...clearly an intolerable condition. To set things straight, Mrs. Virginia Knauer, President Nixon's adviser on consumer affairs, proposed a maximum fat limit of 30%. She would also require manufacturers to tell on the label exactly what is inside-something dog-food sellers have long had to do. Often more concerned about industry than the consumer, the department was at first stubborn...
Paralleling the definition of a political spectrum, however, was a more subtle definition of student government. The position calling for reducing ROTC to the status of an extracurricular committee picked up the label "SFAC-HUC-HRPC resolution"--an alphabetical hodge-podge that indicated student solidarity gainst the present status of ROTC at Harvard...
...without U.S. lobbying, the vote will probably go against Peking for some time. Even if it turns favorable, there are no indications that Peking will accept a seat until its terms for entering the U.N. are met; Peking insists that it be absolved of the Korean War aggressor label and that Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists be expelled. Neither is likely to happen soon...
...global context. Given the steady widening of the Sino-Soviet rift, the world power equation has changed dramatically. With the passing of monolithic Communism, interesting possibilities open up for U.S. diplomacy. The U.S. has tended to look "pro-Russian" in the Sino-Soviet conflict. If that becomes a permanent label, it will only serve to exacerbate Peking's paranoia about collusion between "imperialist" Washington and "revisionist" Moscow...