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Last week Gardner redeemed his prom ise by accepting the chairmanship of the national Urban Coalition, an amal gam of leaders from business, labor, local government, religious and civil rights organizations that was formed to attack the civic problems highlighted by the Newark and Detroit riots...
...nearly half a century, the Cleveland schools suffered from a combination of civic complacency, the steady flight of middle-class whites to the suburbs, and the limiting effects of a debt-free, pay-as-you-go school budget policy. By 1964, the city was spending only $450 per student annually on education, compared with $850 in nearby Shaker Heights. As a result, half of Cleveland's students were in schools more than 50 years old. Only two high schools offered vocational training-and less than a third of all graduates were able to find jobs. None of the city...
...months ago, 200 Communist guerrillas were terrorizing the countryside. Webber immediately expanded counterinsurgency training within Guatemala's 5,000-man army, brought in U.S. Jeeps, trucks, communications equipment and helicopters to give the army more firepower and mobility, and breathed new life into the army's civic-action program...
Civilian Collaborators. Toward the end of 1966, as civic-action teams pushed ahead with new roads and schools in the interior and established the first real rapport with the campesinos, the army was able to launch a major drive against guerrilla strongholds in the Sierra de las Minas in north eastern Guatemala. To aid in the drive, the army also hired and armed local bands of "civilian collaborators" licensed to kill peasants whom they considered guerrillas or "potential" guerrillas. There were those who doubted the wisdom of encouraging such measures in violence-prone Guatemala, but Webber was not among them...
Instead, the fact that North Americans alone possess the power to establish overall Peace Corps policy here strengthens their determinations to develop this country according to the formula which they assume made the United States great. The integers of that formula are community development, civic responsibility, personal hygiene. So they often try to impose their own North American structures--the mothers club, the Boy Scout troop--onto communities which have for generations been highly structured according to their own culture. They try to impose the idea of civic loyalty that one finds in stable middleclass American towns onto rapidly growing...