Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least four regular and so far uncommitted Communist divisions-most of the week's ground probes were carried out by local forces and guerrillas-were reported on the move in III Corps, the vital eleven provinces that surround Saigon. An attempt at the capital itself was not ruled out, and the allies responded by tightening defensive cordons around the city, by now a veritable fortress...
...Maternity Hospital there, he can decree what subordinates may or may not do-and they may not perform abortions. The effect of the McLaren ukase is to send most Birmingham women seeking abortions to London if they can afford that or, if they cannot, to the local back-street abortionist. Much the same thing is happening in Liverpool, England's third-largest city, which has a 40% Roman Catholic population and many anti-abortion doctors...
Track C. The Army is also revising its curriculum to include more academically oriented courses. At eleven campuses, it is now testing an experimental course known as Track C, which uses local civilian instructors to teach cadets in their first two years. In the course entitled "Concepts of Warfare and National Defense," for example, civilians teach the political, economic and geographical aspects while an Army officer expounds on the military side. In addition, the Army has raised the academic credentials of its professors of military science; it now demands that they hold at least a master's degree...
...Road. Most of the time, though, Allen, his assistant ministers, and a handful of trusted aides are on the road, moving from meeting to meeting in a caravan of five huge moving vans brightly labeled "A. A. Allen Revivals." Advance men have prepared the way for them, enlisting local ministers, mostly from Pentecostal churches, to share the stage with Allen, rejoice in the cures, and give a little pitch for their own services. Allen's specialty, along with the cures, is the $100 pledge, and the hard sell is usually made by one of his assistants. "The Scriptures...
...eight-man committee which signed the report has three black members listed: a student, a local minister, and the acting dean of Students at the Divinity School. The student protesting the report said that Theodore E. Moran Jr. D-69, had been the only participating black member...