Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is ample evidence that people in the ghetto are aware that they are often bilked-and resent it more than a little. During the 1965 Watts riots, five supermarkets of one chain, in bad odor with local residents, were burned to the ground, while three markets of another chain, which was considered fair, were spared. The chain grocers are now clearly in the spotlight and under duress to do better for the poor...
...attitude is producing a wave of Negro organizations and movements-on campuses, in professions, in local communities and also on state and national scales. All this can be rather grandly described as a case of the Negro's looking to himself for salvation-and there discovering strengths that he never knew he possessed. There is indeed evidence that black pride is nourishing the new Negro's determination to take over his own destiny and accept no definition of blackness but his own. This kind of Negro is not antiwhite; he is pro-black. As one direct consequence...
...when a recent Black Power demonstration abruptly degenerated into a free-for-all with the police. The toll: 22 injured, 57 arrests. In the Oakland-San Francisco area, the Black Panthers, the Black Students Union and other young, activist, Negro organizations have prompted deep concern among both state and local authorities...
...Sihanoukville, Cambodia's outlet on the Gulf of Thailand. They are then trucked over the U.S.-built Friendship Highway to Pnompenh and sent to the border bases along routes that the American military has named the Sihanouk Trail. Occasionally, V.C. guerrillas buy surplus Chinese small arms from local Cambodian commanders, but this is strictly local enterprise by Sihanouk's low-paid officers...
...cram course on his host country and, once on the job, receives free board, lodging and $3 a week in spending money. To guard against defections, candidates are carefully screened, and those finally chosen travel and work in large groups, remaining where possible under the ever-vigilant eye of local Communists...