Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result of the investigation has been to speed up the long-planned centralization of the Army's criminal investigation division. The Army announced last week that investigations will henceforth be monitored at central Army headquarters in order to prevent suppression of probes by local commanders. Said one general: "The petty graft will continue to go on, but maybe we can stop this big stuff." Perhaps to show that it really means to get tough, the Army has taken back the Distinguished Service Medals previously awarded to Turner and Wooldridge...
...further stiffening of their posture on the battlefield and at the negotiating table, compelling the U.S. to consider slowing down its withdrawal-difficult though that may be. Beyond Viet Nam, Moscow quietly concedes Southeast Asia as a Chinese sphere of influence. Peking steps up subversion and support of local Communist insurgent movements. Unless Asian nations coordinate their defenses, perhaps in a regional pact extending from Korea to Pakistan, they eventually confront a painful choice: 1) accommodation with Peking, or 2) greater military and economic reliance on the West...
...failed to adapt to man. One of its last retreats is Meridian State Park, a 461-acre tangle of cedar breaks and cactus populated by rattlesnakes, red-spotted toads, tarantulas and a steady flock of hardy bird watchers who come to catch a glimpse of the warbler. Now the local Lakeview Recreation Association plans to build a nine-hole golf course right in the middle of the warbler's nesting ground...
...only thing between the bulldozer and the birds is a suit filed by an odd coalition of six conservation groups and the N.A.A.C.P. Seeking a federal court injunction, they charge that the golf course would be de facto segregated because few local Negroes could afford the $100-a-year membership, plus fees. The case will be heard this month, but thus far the vision of green fairways seems to outrank either the black man's cause or the yellow bird's fate...
Thoreau's vision is alive and well in seven Northeastern states, where 581 municipalities have started "conservation commissions" that are fast becoming the most effective new arm of local government. Each commission has five to nine members, usually plain citizens appointed by the town. Charged with managing local natural resources, they try to accommodate competing needs, such as developing industry and saving wetlands. At a time of rapid, sloppy urbanization, the new commissions have found ways to strike a balance between progress and preservation. On their record so far, their efforts merit study throughout...