Word: level
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party, John Lindsay chastized New Yorkers for allowing their city to be "captured by the forces of reaction and fear." Reaction? We're reacting, all right-to streets that are dirtier, to air that is fouler, to a public-school system breaking down at almost every level, to a three-year 100% increase in the number of persons on welfare and to skyrocketing taxes levied in order to keep the whole mess of an incompetent administration "moving". Afraid? Who us? Every ten hours in our "fun" city, there is one murder, two rapes, 32 assaults, 62 robberies...
...there was almost complete silence from the enemy, and American intelligence reported that three North Vietnamese regiments, or about 7,500 men, had been pulled back across the Demilitarized Zone into the North. At a news conference, Secretary of State William Rogers said that "we have had the lowest level of combat activity in Viet Nam for a long time, possibly the whole war." Since the severity of enemy activity has been one of Washington's stated criteria for reducing U.S. forces, Rogers' remarks might be the prelude to an announcement of a second American troop cutback...
Ever since his disclosures, Fitzgerald -who was nominated by the Air Force in 1967 for a Distinguished Service Award-has labored in a kind of Pentagon purgatory. His civil service status, routinely given any appointee at his level after three years of service, was revoked because of "a computer error." He says that his mail is being opened. One letter even bore the initials and stamp of the "action officer" who had opened it. He still toils quietly in the same windowless, fifth-floor office. Instead of monitoring the costs of the multibillion-dollar...
...have set up Medicaid programs (the 40th, Virginia, began operation last week), and some have already been forced to cut back services. Last week close to 200,000 of New York City's low-income Medicaid recipients were dropped from the rolls when the state lowered the eligibility level to an annual income of $5,000 for a family of four. New Mexico last May withdrew from the Medicaid program altogether in hopes of re-entering at a lower level of services...
Long shots: CORREL FIRE in third, LEVEL JAY in tenth; Best Bet: QUEEN VIKING in eighth...