Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem is that the delegation system was not constructed to reflect a state's population in proportional terms. Rather, it was designed to reward those who, through special influence or strength of numbers, have come out on top of the political heap...
...responsive to change. What the mechanism needs in order to operate fairly is, above all, the active commitment of the electorate. This has often been missing. The dissidents' frustration today is in part a function of youth, but it has also encompassed many of their elders who have come abruptly to a state of political awareness...
...soldier of the cities is the cop, I his front line the American ghetto. Harlem, Watts, Roxbury, Hough, Hunters Point, the South Side, Dixie Hills, Bedford-Stuyvesant: these are the battlegrounds whose names are inscribed in rubble and resentment and fear of worse conflagrations to come. Already this year, serious disturbances have broken out in 211 cities and towns. Even when they are quiet, vast areas of the American metropolis today resemble combat zones, volatile, bitter and suspicious...
Outmoded administrative systems that force every recruit to start off in the lowest rank discourage the educated and the enterprising from becoming policemen. Every would-be police chief has to serve a menial apprenticeship; no one from outside, regardless of his qualifications, can come in at the middle. Some, like Reddin, favor lateral entry, commonplace in every other organization, but none have succeeded in changing the ossified structure of the police establishment. Pay is equally out of date; the median for patrolmen in big cities...
...week's end, both the Prague and Moscow governments announced that the Soviet troops were beginning to leave. No one knew, however, how long it would take for them to clear out. Many worried Czechoslovaks recalled that Soviet tanks had begun leaving Hungary, then suddenly turned around and come back to crush the rebels in the streets of Budapest...