Word: localism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today the majority of Negroes probably agrees with the Roy Innis formula: they wish to consolidate their own turf and then decide on what terms they will participate in the larger American society. Tomorrow may bring more strife-or peaceful racial pride. Whatever the outcome, more and more local black leaders are bent on building black establishments and seeing that no one, black or white, burns them down. White Americans are well advised to provide every ounce of help they...
Suspicion About Mediation. Stepping into the muggy heat at Ikeja airport, Wilson avoided suggestions that he had come to mediate. One reason was his awareness of a persistent local suspicion that he had come to pressure the federal military government to make concessions to the Biafrans. Major General Yakubu Gowon, who heads both army and government, intends to fight, he says, "until the rebellion is completely crushed" unless he hears "alternative suggestions," meaning Biafran capitulation. If Wilson presses him to stop by cutting off the arms supply, Gowon can easily cover any cutback in British shipments with increased deliveries from...
...Well aware of the station owners' fears, Pastore has made it clear that he opposes any "sword of Damocles over the heads of broadcasters at renewal time"-giving a broad hint that he might favor legislation to change FCC procedures and facilitate license renewals. One implicit condition: that local stations support his beefed-up Television Code...
Given the ignorance and inertia of many state and local legislative bodies, the un happy fact is that few cities are likely to copy the Southfield formula. Chances for significant tax reform in Congress look only slightly better...
...better if Congress would clear the slate, start over again and retain only a few basic deductions, probably including: 1) personal exemp tions for individuals, boosting the amount somewhat above the outdated $600 level enacted 21 years ago; 2) charitable contributions, without the appreciated-property loophole; 3) state and local sales and income taxes but not state gasoline taxes; and 4) business expenses, but with tighter controls against abuses. The current law covers a rather liberal range of activities. Last week, for example, Topless Dancer Marlene Sherman of San Francisco proudly announced that the IRS had agreed...