Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because of the prominence of integration in revealing the problems of core-city education, many plans for reform have aimed at desegregation as a primary goal. One recent proposal seeks to combat the exodus of whites from core cities by expanding school systems to include white suburbs. Proponents of such "metropolitan" school districts contend that larger systems would open better suburban schools to Negro and Puerto Rican students and would provide the numbers of whites needed to achieve integration...
...their own interests, their approach to life may be narrow, prejudiced. People who are exposed to others, to different ways of life than their own, are going to generally behave better in terms of their fellow man. The "in-and-outer," then, should have a unique capability to combat parochialism and to integrate diverse effort...
...that it did not (see THE NATION). But the guns had already begun to chatter. For the first time, an unsettling outbreak of incidents took place along the front?any one of which might have touched off wider war if either side had really wanted it. In the first combat deaths of the crisis, two Israeli soldiers and a Syrian guerrilla were killed when an Israeli patrol clashed with a group of infiltrators near the Syrian border at Kfar Hanassi. Earlier, also near the Syrian border, an Israeli armored car ran over an Arab-planted mine and blew up, injuring...
...into khakis. But the commanding and familiar figure that strode past the barracks was dressed in civvies. The only martial markings were a brass wire on his right wrist, symbolizing his initiation into a Montagnard unit in Viet Nam and, on his other wrist, a watch crystal worn inward, combat style, to which was attached a gold tag with name and address, presumably to notify next of kin if anything happened to the bearer. The tag read: JOHN WAYNE...
...Interpol started in 1923, when European police opened an information-swapping center in Vienna. After Hitler grabbed Austria in 1938, the Gestapo spirited the records to Berlin, where wartime bombing later destroyed them. In 1946, Interpol was reborn in Paris to combat postwar crime. It got a charter, a general assembly and a secretary-general-currently Jean Nepote, 52, a French Sûreté Nationale commissioner on leave. One-third of Nepote's 90-odd staffers are French detectives; most of his $500,000 annual budget is paid in dues by member countries-98 of them, from America...