Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past years the School has been oriented toward problems of federal law," Cavers said, "but now we should strengthen our studies of state and local governmental problems...
...government has begun a drive against such corruption in Tuscany (80% of whose towns are Red-governed). By last week 56 mayors and local administrators had been put in jail. Not all were Communists, but most were. "McCarthy-ism," cried the Communist L'Unità, in incoherent rage. The campaign had a double effect: it hurt the Communist treasury and exposed the Communist moral...
...Saigon last week, Premier Ngo Dinh Diem arrested a former Minister of the Interior on charges of extorting $120,000 from local Chinese businessmen. Diem scheduled a spectacular public trial, in which his prosecutors intend to show how the ex-Minister's policemen arrested wealthy Chinese and threatened to deport them "for helping the Viet Minh" unless the Chinese paid blackmail. Diem wants to use the trial to herald a big new campaign against corruption in demoralized South Viet Nam. There are faint signs that his austere new nationalism is beginning to catch an apathetic public's fancy...
...obvious answer to the problem was legalized prostitution. One newspaper also blamed the country's 1936 ban on licensed bordellos for "the recrudescence of shameful attacks on women." A few days later, Strongman Juan Perón cracked open the 1936 law with a decree authorizing provincial and local authorities to permit brothels "in suitable places."* Whether or not Perón was sincere in billing the decree as a remedy for Argentina's worsening sex-offense problem, most Argentines looked upon the measure as a new attack in his running feud with the Roman Catholic Church (TIME...
...stock. The Observer's new publisher will be Jim Knight, executive vice president of the chain and general manager of the Miami Herald. Said new Publisher Knight in a city-room talk to the Observer's staff: "We intend to run the Observer as a completely local operation. We have a few tricks we can offer you as consultants. But you will have no absentee management...