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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Limiting Growth. Bradley intends to expand his powers and use opportunities that Yorty overlooked, reminding his commissioners of his big election mandate. He has called for the crash development of detoxification centers for drug addicts, the use of volunteer community patrols to curb street crime and gang violence in schools and the setting up of an ombudsman to initiate public hearings and investigations...
With these ringing phrases, Libyan Strongman Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, 31, last April unleashed what he calls a "People's Revolution." Designed to expand his military dictatorship into a nationwide grass-roots movement, it so far has spawned more than 400 "people's committees" in villages, towns, factories and schools-and more are being formed daily. TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn visited Libya and cabled this assessment of Gaddafi's most recent efforts to transform his oil-rich but backward nation...
...hopes to expand its audience by getting the Advertising Council, which serves as a conduit for public service ads on major broadcast networks, to accept some of its promotions for placement. Despite low salaries, PIC staffers remain enthusiastic about their work. Says Stermer: "It beats hell out of selling soap...
...shocked G.I.s began to fund graduate programs in university psychology departments to train non-medical psychotherapists to cope with the needs of these veterans. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) added more money for these clinical training programs beginning in the 1950s. These Federal grants allowed Harvard to expand the Plympton Clinic into a full-fledged program in research and clinical training in abnormal psychology...
...organization is planning to write a newsletter which will be sent to all women employees at Harvard. The steering committee hopes to expand the membership of the organization beyond its present size of 64 women...