Word: local
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Monro listed Miles' central role in the Birmingham Head Start program, in retraining programs for industrial workes, in the fight against illiteracy among local adults, and in the regional VISTA program to illustrate the way in which the black colleges can perform a second function as centers for the development of institutional strength among black people...
National and local leaders of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee yesterday denied rumors of a split in the Fall anti-war movement, but confirmed their plans to stage community peace drives separate from the nation-wide March on Washington November...
...announcing the plans, however, Moratorium spokesman, Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, denied that the local campaigns were an attempt to keep people away from the March on Washington...
ANYONE WHO expected to hear thoughtful criticism of the Center for International Affairs during the guided tour last week must have been disappointed. Like most school-boy trips to a zoo, the November Action Committee's visit to "our own local jungle" was dominated by a feeling of juvenile amusement rather than educational interest...
...remote countries of the world, stubbornly work away at the task of raising the living standards, the hopes, and the self-respect of some of the most miserable people in existence. If their work requires them to take on the U.S. government, or the World Bank, or an indifferent local bureaucracy, that is all in the day's chores. Sometimes they work with governments that they can admire, sometimes with governments for which they have considerably less than total admiration. But they are not working to help governments; they are working to help people...