Word: localizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...probably immune to such violent reversals of law and mood. Nonetheless, as in any other democracy, change in the U.S. tends to be uneven: two steps forward, one step back. Whatever the disposition of the new Supreme Court, there is real danger of repressive action at the local level?in all likelihood by policemen and prosecutors not intellectually equipped to judge the artistic or social merits of a book or film...
...York Daily News, was accused by disgruntled former employees of distorting news shows with doctored film-a charge that WPIX denies and the FCC has yet to investigate. In Los Angeles, KHN-TV has been under FCC investigation since 1966, after businessmen accused it of neglecting local needs. These actions indicate a change in the FCC's hitherto inflexible attitude; it now seems possible that program content and quality will figure in licensing decisions...
...Christ, a group long active in civil rights work. The Rev. Everett C. Parker, 56, director of the church's office of communications, has not only won a crucial appeals court ruling that citizens' groups have every right to oppose TV-license renewals, but has helped organize local groups to carry on such fights. Rather than risk being dragged before the FCC or into court, KTAL-TV of Texarkana recently agreed in a private contract with one Parker-backed group to end discrimination in its broadcasting...
Last week Teamsters Local 282 in New York City negotiated a rich new contract that calls for a $57.60 weekly wage raise over the next two years...
Outside Powers. What Shaplen finds, not surprisingly, is trepidation, partly a reflection of local uncertainty over the U.S. role in Southeast Asia after a Viet Nam settlement. But he also discovers encouraging developments that look to the inevitable day when, he feels, both the U.S. and China will play a smaller role in Southeast Asia. Born partly from that realization is a growing awareness among Asian nations of the need to look to their own resources and cultivate independence. Strongly non-Communist countries show symptoms of being able to adjust to Communism without becoming politically subverted or emotionally unstrung. Singapore...