Word: localism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Answers in Part. What accounts for labor's militancy? One reason is prosperity. In a time of low unemployment (now 3.8%), the worker commands a premium. Other goads are inflation and ever rising local and state taxes-not to mention the threat of a new 10% fed eral surtax (see following story). In their drive for higher wages, union members are rejecting one-seventh of the contracts accepted by their leaders...
Poisonous Propagandists. In response to the common feeling among police that federal crime and gun laws would infringe on local authority, L.B.J. assured the chiefs: "I did not propose that the Federal Government take over the job of dealing with crime in the streets. Washington cannot patrol a neighborhood in the Far West, stop a burglary in the South, or prevent a riot in a great metropolis...
...organize a conference of prominent Palestinians to determine just what form peace negotiations should take, and what they should lead to. His compatriots still disagree about whether to hold out for full independence, try to become part of Jordan again or accept Israeli citizenship in return for full local autonomy and Israeli economic aid. No date has yet been set for the conference, but Ja'abari expects it to appoint an Arab Palestinian to begin negotiations with the Israeli authorities...
Acapulco has spawned a thriving underground traffic in "Acapulco gold," the local marijuana that hippies believe gives the world's best high. Prostitution, vice and corruption abound, and guns are as common as palm trees. Moreover, Acapulco is the largest city in mountainous and jungle-clad Guerrero, Mexico's most lawless state. Guerrero has become such a problem that last week the Mexican army was embarked on a massive drive to round up all the arms in the state...
Acapulco's squalid, crumbling jail is so overcrowded that local authorities fear a breakout, have called in the army to help keep an eye on the city's 519 prisoners. Northern hippies who came south for Acapulco gold (maximum penalty for possession: six years) were jammed in with hardened characters like Félix Radilla, wanted for 85 murders, and Constáncio ("Black Animal") Hernández García, whose gang gunned down 18 soldiers a few months ago. The prisoners pay a price for everything: a cot to sleep on, half-decent food...