Word: local
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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High-ranking U.S. officers in Saigon point out that main-force enemy units have been driven away from population centers. No major city in South Viet Nam has undergone an important attack this year. The strongest enemy divisions are now clustered along the Laotian and Cambodian borders. Local guerrillas and sappers still manage daily forays inland, but American officials argue that at the moment the enemy capacity for full-scale offensives appears drastically reduced...
...four).1' The delegates also called for expansion and reform of existing food programs; the creation of a plan to provide all schoolchildren with a free, nutritious breakfast and lunch; and the transfer of existing food programs from the Agriculture Department to Health, Education and Welfare-and local administration of all these operations by the poor...
Unsettling Element. Police officials around the country and Justice Department officials in Washington deny that there is any concerted nationwide drive against the Panthers. "But we obviously keep an eye on them,"says an FBI source. The FBI also supplies intelligence to local departments and has been known to participate in raids on Panther headquarters, although both Chicago raids last week were exclusively local affairs. There is no doubt that the Panthers, with their caches of weapons and militant speeches, are an unsettling element in ghettos-and not just to the police. Much of their violence has been spent fighting...
construction jobs, even though a target equal to the proportion of blacks and other minority workers in the local area is justified ... the proportion does not come anywhere near to 20 per cent...
...Panther leadership is either in jail, in exile, or dead. There have been rumors of orders from The Man, from the Attorney General, from the Justice Department with the blindfold, from John Mitchell, or maybe from his wife. Rumors of a seven month old order to local police authorities to exterminate the Panthers. Rumors...