Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...misimpression created by an article about the Career Criminal Program [Jan. 30]. The article states "the program ... is now being phased out." The program is not, in fact, being phased out. The intent of the program is to provide an opportunity with limited funding to demonstrate to state and local officials innovative approaches and techniques for handling the serious, repeat offender. The hope is that following two years of discretionary funding (which was all that was ever assured) the projects' costs will be assumed by the jurisdictions. The program is not designed to provide ongoing federal funding forever...
...health fund. The owners were adamant on the wildcat provision because 2.5 million man-days were lost that way in the coal mines last year, ten times the average for all industries. The miners, on the other hand, regard such strikes as their only way of settling grievances against local mine operators. The miners were nearly as outraged by a provision compelling them to contribute up to $650 a year for family medical expenses, which have hitherto been paid by the companies...
...Angry Nurses. Two nurses, Sandra Kramer and Valerie Koster, found foul conditions at the Public Health Service Indian Hospital in Shiprock, N. Mex., where they began working in September 1974. They complained to superiors and finally wrote an open letter to President Ford, an action that received considerable local publicity. "The focus here," they said, "is on filling out forms, doing the least work with the least effort and just getting by." The Indian Health Service fired the nurses in January 1975 for "lack ... [of] ability or ... desire to become a responsible employee of the IHS." Public pressure forced...
...Gavino's story in his twentieth year. As implausible as it may seem, the son apparently discovers for the first time the possibility of alternatives to his shepherd's lot when he hears a Strauss waltz coming from the accordion of two minstrels on their way to a local fair. Gavino's self-education begins with his mastery of the accordion and proceeds apace, although he does comply with his father's orders by going off to the mainland to join the army. In the army he learns to read and write in Italian and acquires the desired training...
...inevitable then happens: a literate and appreciably more independent Gavino leaves the army and returns to Sardinia to pursue his studies at the local university, much to his father's dismay. At first, Gavino agrees to help out with the family farm while he attends college, but when the daily chores begin to interfere with his studies, he elects to concentrate exclusively on his books. The patriarch tries to reinstate his old tyranny but encounters unprecedented resistance and finally rebellion from Gavino, who forsakes the family hearth. Clearly, blood alone has long ago lost its meaning to this angry young...