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Skin-Close. The solution that is most urgently needed has so far eluded everybody, and until it is found, the cities will teeter on the brink of violence. That alchemical formula, of course, is the one that would transmute the ghettos from hostile enclaves-impoverished, ugly, seething with resentment-into integral, integrated parts of the cities. "For the present," says James Q. Wilson, Moynihan's predecessor at the Joint Center and now his right-hand man, "the urban Negro is, in a fundamental sense, the urban problem...
Like a Dickensian orphan, the Teacher Corps has teetered on the brink of starvation from birth. The program to send federally recruited, federally paid teachers into the nation's worst slum schools came into being in 1965, almost as an afterthought to a larger education bill. Congress left the program's gruel bowl empty of dollars until the following year, then handed it a subsistence diet that was due to run out last week and seemed most unlikely to be replenished...
...predecessors, James Bond (Sean Connery) is once again the Fleming fantasy of the British savior. This time he comes to rescue Russia and the U.S., which teeter helplessly on the brink of war. Someone, it develops, has been hijacking both countries' space capsules as they orbit the earth, spiriting them away to places unknown. Both countries accuse each other, unaware that Peking and S.P.E.C.T.R.E. are behind it all. Naturally, the only one who can help is 007, who interrupts a love scene in Hong Kong with his Chinese mistress for the tiresome task of saving the world once more...
While the guns roared over the sands of Sinai and the hills of Galilee, the U.S. and the Soviet Union worked in tandem to avoid a catastrophic confrontation. With a Middle East cease-fire in effect and the superpowers back from the brink, the Big Two have arrived at a definitive new crossroads in world affairs. Will they revert to the arid pattern of cold-war contentiousness, or will they make a concerted effort to shape new agreements not only on the Middle East but also on a whole panoply of world problems...
...Belt region and learned most of his lessons in the army. For months, Ojukwu has been gradually removing the last traces of federal influence in the East. Gowon made concessions, but he insisted on the principle of a strong central government. Then last week Gowon forced Ojukwu over the brink by announcing a plan to divide Nigeria's regions into twelve states, three of them to be carved out of the East. Ojukwu rejected the plan, which gerrymandered most of the Ibos into one landlocked state and separated them from their oil deposits near the Niger River delta...