Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle promised France's restive students a voice in the administration of the universities and a complete overhaul of the archaic curriculum. Education Minister Edgar Faure has produced a reform law so vague that many educators doubt that it ever will be put into practice. The students remain angry and distrustful. Disturbances of varying intensity have erupted this fall at dozens of French universities and high schools. Last month, after riot police were stationed on the campus at Nanterre, where the spring disorders began, militant students pinned to their clothes the Star of David, just as the Jews...
...went the slow route simply because it could not afford the broadcast tieline charge. An A. T. & T. link-up for ten hours of weekly programming costs roughly $450,000 a month, or about three-quarters of NET's total monthly budget. But in 1967, Congress passed a law that 1) permitted the telephone system to cut the rate drastically for educational channels and 2) established a Corporation for Public Broadcasting to help...
...crime rate is running a brisk 19% ahead of 1967 came as no surprise to one industry whose prosperity is judged by such statistics. Crime and civil commotion are paying off handsomely for the hundreds of scattered, mostly small companies that sell goods and services to the rapidly growing law-enforcement market...
Losing the Fight. And why not? Spending on law enforcement in 1968 totaled nearly $1.1 billion, up from $930 million in 1967. The money went for a variety of services and hardware that includes 800 police whistles, $170 sirens and $100,000 helicopters. Such spending will grow at least 10% annually for the next five years. The Safe Streets Act, which Lyndon Johnson signed in June, will increase federal anti-crime aid from $63 million in 1968 to as much as $500 million in 1972. Richard Nixon also wants to strengthen the nation's undermanned police forces and generally...
...from Billy Clubs. Though the industry remains balkanized, takeovers and acquisitions are increasing. The biggest and broadest-gauged company in the field is Bangor Punta Corp., a Manhattan-based conglomerate that has acquired five suppliers of law-enforcement equipment over the past three years. Among them is the maker of Chemical Mace, the liquid-tear-gas spray. Sales of law-enforcement equipment now account for about 9% of the Bangor Punta's $259 million annual sales and 30% of its $22 million pre-tax profits. The company broke into the market in 1965 by acquiring Smith & Wesson, whose revolvers...