Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five new states have agreed to establish a single supreme court-but so far, that is all. Past attempts at federation have flopped. The most notable one collapsed in 1962, when the larger islands of Jamaica and Trinidad-Tobago, fearing that the smaller islands would become an economic burden on them, opted for full independence instead of a federal arrangement. One of the strongest opponents of federation was Antigua's Papa Bird, whose title last week was elevated from Chief Minister to Premier. He has a point when he argues that islands with different histories and customs would...
...American tradition in education is local support for local schools. According to former Harvard President James Bryant Conant, the emphasis on community responsibility for the financing of public schools has created an "inequality of opportunity" that can only be resolved by shifting the burden to the states and, to a lesser extent, the Federal Government...
...book called The Comprehensive High School (McGraw-Hill; $3.95) Conant points out that some states have already assumed a big share of the financial burden. Nonetheless, he adds, "there are gross inequalities within a state as well as between states." Some school districts get as much as two-thirds of their support from state aid; others get as little as 6%. The disparity frequently bears no relation to need. Conant proposes that costs be spread statewide to correct local inequities. He would equalize opportunity nationally by returning part of federal income taxes to the states for school use "as each...
American military involvement must, then, be maintained for now, but U.S. political and economic involvement in Europe must, in time, decrease. And eventually, Bohlen foresees a time when even the burden of U.S. military involvement will be lightened. The future of Europe, he feels, lies in a unified Europe, capable of its own defense and capable of competing economically as a whole with the United States...
Department of Defense officials maintain that the volunteer army would cost $17 billion a year. Some observers also feel that a volunteer army would soon become an army composed largely of Negroes -- shifting the burden of military service onto a minority group. There is also the argument that a volunteer army -- a professional army -- would be a seedbed for a Seven Days in May-style putsch...