Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...difficult to draw in practice, but the Administration now says that it intends to do so. Said one Administration foreign affairs analyst: "In the past, it was an American responsibility to see that wars of national liberation did not succeed; we are saying now that it is principally a local responsibility." Sometimes the U.S. has acted as though defending a far-off land were more important to the U.S. than to that country itself...
Talk and Listen and Act. Another, and more serious, problem is the drift of authority toward Washington. With sophisticated communications equipment available, and the threat of nuclear war always present, local commanders tend to look to the capital for guidance in crises. This Washington reflex is not discouraged by Government officials. They are rightfully concerned with keeping tight rein on the military. As President Kennedy once said: "I don't want some sergeant starting World War III." Yet the Pike report demonstrates that a better balance must be found if local commanders are not to be paralyzed in cases...
...local campuses have become increasingly security-conscious. Dormitories have instituted checkout procedures, and Eastern Michigan has imposed a curfew. The University of Michigan has increased its cross-campus bus service and installed lights on major streets and walkways. Campus police have stepped up night patrols...
...first time in years, the American command is not predicting the date of the next expected offensive. The reason is that the usual sources of intelligence-captured documents, prisoners and deserters-reveal virtually nothing. The most that can be gleaned is that local Communist commanders have heard of vague plans for a new drive some time in the fall...
...year; holders of such cards would be exempted from paying sales taxes. Beyond that fetching if improbable idea, serious reform might include a doubling of the federal income tax's $600 ex emption per dependent. The states could help lower-income communities by easing the ruinous burden of local school taxes, replacing them with a graduated statewide tax that might equalize city and suburban allocations for schools and benefit both blacks and whites...