Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...caused ruins of Newark and Detroit still smoldered, the eleven-member* commission had a threefold mission: 1) to record what had actually happened, 2) to find out why it happened, and 3) to suggest a scheme for heading off further troubles. The first two tasks were performed with the help of 90 staff workers in a minimum of time and with a maximum of thoughtfulness and sensitivity. But for the third assignment, the commission, stunned by the gravity and magnitude of the problem, produced shotgun recommendations without regard for cost or national priority. Though many of the recommendations were urgently...
...POLICE. More Negroes should be recruited and promoted in urban police departments. Increased police protection should be given to the ghettos; policy guidelines should be established to help patrolmen make decisions in tense situations. Police should be given special training in the prevention and control of riots. Strict rules should be written covering the use of riot-control weapons, and alternative, nonlethal equipment should be developed. The commission condemned police departments that are preparing for a long, hot summer simply by buying such destructive weapons as tanks and machine guns. "Weapons which are designed to destroy, not to control...
...Thieu's first choice as his running mate last year: "I have met many Americans who say that they have no right to get involved in our internal affairs. But in fact they are involved. And if they are sincere, they must get even more deeply involved and help South Viet Nam remedy past political mistakes. The Americans cannot let government leaders damage their anti-Communist goals. They must look at Viet Nam much like a business. If you invest money in a firm, you have some say about who should manage it and how he runs...
...Volta, he says: "I'm not interested in making the Ivory Coast an oasis of prosperity in the middle of a desert of misery. Sooner or later, my neighbors' difficulties will create trouble for me. And it's the desert that always engulfs the oasis." To help keep the desert away, Houphouët has organized and largely bankrolled a $7,000,000 development loan fund to help the less prosperous, French-speaking countries on his borders...
Buddhists & Christians. The major task of church groups now is trying to help the huge army of homeless refugees created by the onslaught. Viet Nam Christian Service, supported by Lutheran World Relief, the Mennonites and Church World Service, has assumed responsibility for refugee relief in a number of areas, including Gia Dinh, a suburb of Saigon; often braving Communist fire, service volunteers have scrounged lumber to rebuild homes, hauled food, water and sleeping mats to refugee camps. Catholic Relief Services is now attempting to house and feed 87,000 new refugees in 27 centers...