Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Korea. U.S. troop commitments are steadily moving toward planned higher levels; last week, more than 3,000 fresh troops arrived in Viet Nam. The number of American troops will reach about 400,000 by the end of 1966-at which point it will equal for the first time the U.S. troop strength in Korea-and then go up to half a million by next spring. The problem is that the enemy's buildup continues to match, step for step, that of the U.S. In the past year, the allies have not been able to increase their troop-strength advantage...
That it has not done so is a wonder, for among other conspicuous firsts, Americans are without equal as nature's vandals-by-indifference. At Lake Tahoe, the story is hearteningly the reverse. For nearly a decade, local, state and federal agencies have fought valiantly and, it now seems, successfully, to save Tahoe from the fate that has necessitated a long-range antipollution cleanup program for Lake Erie. What has been achieved at Tahoe is the arresting of the life cycle of the lake so that its crystalline waters may retain the remarkable purity that still ranks them...
...nation that professes equal justice for all, U.S. jurists have long been troubled by the fact that reality seems to provide quite a bit less justice for the poor. This concern is at the root of the Office of Economic Opportunity's $25 million program of legal services for the indigent. During the past year, federal cash has funded no-fee "neighborhood law offices" in 28 major cities, with 22 more cities on the way. The nation's second biggest such project has just received an independent appraisal from a dispassionate Philadelphia judge...
...wasteful and inferior." Meeting in Los Angeles, the association warmly endorsed the idea and offered the aid of all members.* Even more approvingly, the American Bar Association last week urged Congress to double the OEO legal-aid budget to "a minimum" of $52 million. The goal is not only equal justice for the poor, said the A.B.A. It is also urgently needed "respect for law" in the "greatest breeding ground of the criminal world, the slum...
...anguish to martini drinkers of the world will not nearly equal that of Spain's olive farmers. So far, the Spanish government has announced no new plans to aid the industry, but olive growers have hopes for an ongoing fiveyear, $500,000 research campaign on some 50,000 trees in various blighted areas, which aims to outwit the Dacus fly with phosphorous compounds...