Word: rural
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State Department has refused to apply pressure forcefully or openly against the regime. By controlling the Greek press and radio, the junta has led the urban literate and the rural folk to believe that the U.S. was solidly behind the coup. Secretary McNamara's recent warnings to the Greek minister of defense were misrepresented in the Greece newspapers as "understanding approval...
...position. Dean of Students James B. Jones warned the students that the legislature is meeting right now to consider a cut in the university's already skimpy budget. An active SNCC chapter on the campus, Dean Jones reasons, would certainly not appease the legislators from the segregationist citadels of rural east Texas. Jones added that the university's present fund-raising campaign in Houston might be endangered if radical Black Power advocates gained too much student support, or any form of toleration from the administration. Indeed, if the editorial policy of the Forward Times, a weekly paper of the Negro...
...pattern prevails throughout the nation. Minnesota's legislature approved a 10% to 15% increase in educational funds for the Twin Cities, which previously had been outvoted by rural interests. Wisconsin's dairy-directed legislature, long a staunch defender of the more expensive spread, finally made the sale of oleomargarine legal. Colorado passed the nation's most advanced abortion bill, and North Carolina last week enacted a measure that is similar to Colorado's in most respects. Also last week, Oklahoma became the first state to legalize artificial insemination by a donor other than the woman...
Political Greenhorns. Reapportionment, clearly, is not going to prove a quick and easy solution to the myriad ills currently plaguing the American states. For one thing, rural representatives still control most committee chairmanships by virtue of seniority. For another, many of the reapportionment legislators-though generally better educated than the men they replaced-are political greenhorns. No less than 40% of Arkansas' state representatives are first-termers; in Utah, 56 of the 97 house and senate members are freshmen; 25 of Nevada's 60 lawmakers are sitting in the legislature for the first time...
Last week President Johnson transferred the responsibility for the highly publicized rural pacification program in Vietnam from American civilians to General Westmoreland. His decision was apparently the result of the widespread feeling that the countryside at present is insufficiently secure from Viet Cong harrassment to make the program work. In addition, he probably wanted to speed the integration of South Vietnamese armed forces with American troops in holding down the fighting in areas that are to be rebuilt...