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Hopelessly Poor. Trying his best to contain the Huk threat, Marcos has launched in central Luzon a civic-action program that has built 178 new schools, dug dozens of wells and irrigation ditches and paved dirt roads. But the area is so hopelessly poor that his efforts have made little impact. The President's fear is that the Huk movement will spread to other impoverished areas before he can stamp it out in Luzon. "The battle can start any time," says Marcos. "If I must end my political career going after the Communists, I wouldn't mind...
...district attorney of New Orleans had promised some arrests in his sensational crusade to unmask a conspiracy to assassinate John F. Kennedy, and last week, sure enough, he made an arrest. Clay Shaw, 54, former managing director of New Orleans' International Trade Mart and a well-known civic leader, was taken into custody after five hours of nonstop questioning. "There was an agreement and combination," said Garrison's office, among Shaw, Lee Harvey Oswald and others "to kill John F. Kennedy." There it was-the first formal allegation that someone besides Oswald was involved in the President...
...term, Mrs. Hicks was chosen committee chairman, hence titular head of the entire school system. She had been elected to the Committee in 1961, considering herself a reformer. Recently she told an Atlantic reporter that she had run for the School Committee because of a long family interest in civic affairs (her father was a prominent Boston judge and for years she was his law clerk) and the relative quietness of the School Committee. In the 1961 campaign there was no mention of the problems of Negro education and Mrs. Hicks campaigned on promises to pay attention to educational rather...
...firmness, has been stumping the state to argue against tuition and budget cuts, seems incompatible with a Reagan administration. U.C.L.A. Chancellor Franklin Murphy, a Reagan political defender but an opponent of the Governor on the budget issue, seems content to stay in Los Angeles, where he is a civic as well as campus leader...
These are all valuable services, but obviously none will solve Boston's problems. As Putnam puts it, that doesn't matter very much, for the Civic Center is oriented toward people rather than causes...