Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Massachusetts." But Kevin White should have been even happier. On that day he witnessed the successful completion of a very risky and daring political ploy. The tax bill which Volpe had signed that morning was one designed to enable the state government to assume the costs of all local welfare programs. In the summer of 1967, the General Court authorized the Commonwealth to take over all the welfare programs administered by the cities and towns. In essence, the Welfare Re-Organization Act meant the elimination of all municipal welfare agencies and replaced them with a state-run welfare department. Aside...
...Girls--and even boys--as young as 13 or 14 have been admitted to mixers in the past and that is obviously undesirable," Watson said. Parents of local teenagers, as well as both Harvard and Cambridge police have filed complaints about the mixers, he said...
...recent indictments are an escalation but by no means the first attack. Men who refused induction have been swiftly prosecuted and sent to prison. Moreover in many cities the most active young people in the anti-war movement have been singled out for special attention by the local police...
...movement, those without whom Spock and Coffin, for all their courage, would be isolated and ineffective. A week ago no one could have predicted the outcome. Today it is clear that the government has failed. Moreover people under attack all over the country can now deal with local prosecution as part of a national struggle around issues which are important to most Americans...
There have been unconfirmed reports that those involved were members of the "Deacons"--a local gang...