Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blood and violence: these two incidents outline the double view that New York's thousands of Negro and Puerto Rican citizens hold of their Mayor. Lindsay demonstrates his almost puritanical commitment to the principle of social equality every day: he walks the streets of Harlem, he appoints a civilian review board, he fights with Washington for more anti-poverty money. But these sincere efforts have so far failed to bring forth much that people can see. The boredom, frustration, and poverty of the East New York streets exploded with an impatience for results...
...TALKING SATELLITES. Of all the objects now in space, those with the most dramatic potential for civilian use are communications satellites. How to handle them in the future is a problem so complex that the U.N. subcommittee has shied away from it. By 1969, the Communications Satellite Corp. will have five Early Birds in space, which will enable any single TV broadcast to blanket the globe, and within the next few years some 20 countries will have built stations to tune in on Comsat's broadcasts. Such prophets as RCA's David Sarnoff foresee the day when...
...problems of space law, while most ominous when they touch upon the military, nonetheless are so broad that space lawyers-a new but growing breed of specialists-have hardly begun to consider their ramifications. What happens, for example, if a civilian British scientist should kill an American or a Russian astronaut on the moon? Who would arrest whom, and what court of what country would have jurisdiction? Despite the fact that nations have forsworn territorial rights on celestial bodies, questions of property rights are bound to arise when exploration and interplanetary travel increase. The French have already raised one question...
...Labor Department estimated San Francisco's unemployment rate at five per cent. The August rate for the national civilian labor force was three and nine-tenths per cent. The jobless rate fro Negro males in the San Francisco area is triple the white rate...
...recent months there has been much discussion of the concept of universal national service. Secretary McNamara has suggested that a man might do his patriotic duty either through military service or through appropriate civilian work, such as that of the Peace Corps. Opponents of this idea have quite rightly objected that no civilian alternative to the armed forces demands the potential sacrifice of the soldier on the battlefield: his very life. But there is a simple and obvoius remedy for this defect. Each month the percentage of war deaths should be determined, and this proportion of men engaged in nonmilitary...