Word: combatancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year, far faster than food supplies-a serious situation that has been severely aggravated by drought in parts of Africa and India. In Bucharest last month, a United Nations conference of demographers, scientists and government planners from 141 nations held ten days of acrimonious discussions about how to combat this 20th century version of the old Malthusian nightmare (TIME, Sept. 9). Naturally, not much tune or interest was expended on the contrary trend toward lower birth rates among the industrialized nations...
...early September council meeting, an ad hoc Coalition to Combat Racism called for the resignations of Police Chief James F. Reagan, City Manager James L. Sullivan and several police officers, saying that "the issue of racism [is] of sufficient importance that there is no one so powerful or so removed that they can stand on the sidelines and watch as some citizens in this city literally go through hell...
...representing 12 local organizations, also asked the council to create a citizen investigative unit to study the practices of the Police Department. A plan submitted by the group stipulated that the proposed unit be supported entirely by city money and that all members be chosen from the Coalition to Combat Racism. The council has not yet taken the matter under serious consideration...
Community dissatisfaction with police intensified with the handling of the black patrolmen's federal court suit. Members of the Coalition to Combat Racism were disturbed when Mayor Sullivan on Aug. 19 denied charges of racial discrimination in police hiring and promotion practices. Sullivan said, "When I was mayor in '68, we gave them [blacks] the opportunity. We provided programs for those minority people, but they never went through with them...
Died. Alexander Procofieff de Seversky, 80, Russian-born aeronautical pioneer; in Manhattan. A czarist pilot who downed 13 German planes in World War I after losing a leg in combat, Seversky settled in the U.S. after the Bolshevik Revolution. He founded the Seversky Aircraft Corp. (later Republic Aviation); helped develop the automatic bombsight, the automatic pilot and in-flight fueling; and built and test-flew a number of advanced fighters and amphibious planes. On the eve of World War II the autocratic Russian clashed with Isolationist Charles Lindbergh by arguing that the Axis could be defeated from the air, then...