Word: births
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...done in other parts of the country, but also by agencies, private as well as state. Subjecting white Southern society to law enforcement regarding civil rights would stop the migration of Negroes to our congested cities and eventually make Negroes want to return to the land of their birth...
...would say that in general I am speaking about a tendency within our social sciences and our development-minded people, in conjunction with tendencies within some of the more enlightened of our miltary people. I think it was this conjunction that gave birth to the concept of counter-insurgency as a constructive, both military and economic action that could help transform revolutionary situations in our direction...
...JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "The Beginnings of Life" is a study of the development of a baby from fetus through birth...
...rate among poor families was nearly double the national average. In certain city ghettos and pockets of rural poverty the rate was seven times that in surrounding suburban areas." To correct this: We must now provide "essential medical care to the 700,000 needy mothers who now give birth each year and to their infants." So the President recommended a $58 million increase in funds for maternal and child care...
These are the statistics of failure--a failure as drastic as it is widespread. The immediate reason for the failure is, of course, the increase in the birth rate along with the fall in the death rate. But this does not explain the problem, since almost all countries with critical illiteracy problems have introduced compulsory elementary education. In fact, such laws are usually among the first passed when a former colony gains independence...