Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Violence," he continues, "is bad only when it is used in an anti-social way. When it is used to maintain law and order... violence is a positive good." He goes on to reason that if the government won't enforce the law, then the people "not only have the right but the obligation to enforce the law themselves!" This vigilante mentality rejects efforts to work with the courts, as many moderate conservatives are attempting; the courts, NYA declares, "are PACKED with liberal judges" who are assumed to be unwilling or unable to deal with the evil in our society...
...donated food arrive regularly at the San Francisco Indian Center, a social headquarters for the roughly 20,000 Indians who live in the Bay Area. Still, living conditions on the island are painfully primitive. The Indians are cooking and keeping warm with round-the-clock campfires and struggling to maintain sanitary facilities. But one Indian acidly observed: "It's still better than most reservations...
...artillery emplacements and setting fires at Egypt's Suez refineries. The principal targets were surface-to-air missile sites, and the destruction of SAM sites was a warning to Egypt not to press too hard. It was also an indication that, for the time being, Israel would rather maintain the uncertain status quo than agree to any peace formula that would diminish its security...
...farther. He would totally abolish routine vaccination of children, and of all stay-at-home Americans except those engaged in health services that might bring them into contact with an accidentally imported case of the disease. He would, however, continue to vaccinate young men entering the armed forces and maintain the presently required vaccination for any traveler to areas where smallpox is still rife...
...California's Santa Barbara Channel, the scene of last January's big oil leak. Once again, a thick black tide from the same Union Oil Co. well oozed offshore over a 20-mile area, fouling beaches and harming marine creatures. Company officials and the U.S. Geological Survey maintain that the new leak was caused by a buildup of pressure in the oil dome. The solution to the problem seems to be to keep pumping oil so that the pressure does not reach the rupture point. But even normal operation of the offshore wells is risky. Pipeline breaks...