Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pinched Budget. Head Start administrators see their problem in the fact that under HEW the individual states would control the program and possibly curtail its scope. Traditional support for state control is one reason for the longstanding Republican opposition to OEO. When Head Start proved to be not only a resounding success but also a catalyst for integration, Southern Democrats joined the opposition. Now OEO fears that segregationists would deliberately downgrade the program in the South...
...Maoist-threw the President out. Then he discovered that he and his fellow officers, divided by tribal jealousies, could not agree on who should take over. The coup makers, hailing from tribes in the north and the west, quickly came to realize that the only man with any control over the powerful Bakongo tribe of the south (who make up 53% of the population of 900,000 and dominate commerce) was Massamba-Debat, a Bakongo himself...
...Under Control. Once the President was called back, the military indicated that they wanted the move to the right continued. The provisional government that Massamba-Debat formed last week reflected that desire. Nearly all of the Republic's leading left-wingers were excluded from the Cabinet. The battalion-sized army not only retained the key portfolios of defense and interior but also put the free-swinging Jeunesse under its control...
...center" for the nation. Another directive gave the army authority to deal with recalcitrant Red Guards "according to the laws of the state," reducing them virtually to the status of common criminals and counterrevolutionaries. The writing of posters and publishing of newspapers by Red Guards were put under army control...
...confined to Washington, he thrives on the grueling cross-country chicken-and-peas circuit. Day in, day out, he lives with politics. The result is bedrock grounding in the workings of U.S. politics. "I admire the professionals who stay with it," he says, "who don't lose control of themselves in emotional binges, who view politics not as a holy war between virtue and evil but as the glory of the country-and a continuing source of amusement...