Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...personnel every year; 85% of all employees are in the five lowest pay grades. Operations are guided by a vast hodgepodge of rules and regulations that fill a 9½lb. volume. The accumulated need for facilities and equipment exceeds $5 billion; yet the proposed construction of any major postal facility usually takes eight to ten years to win congressional approval...
...eight years was not much to boast about. Routine city services operate efficiently enough, and the L.A. area has enjoyed a dramatic economic expansion. However, with power in Los Angeles fragmented between city and county government, Yorty has never attempted to exercise the strong and dynamic leadership that any major city needs. Furthermore, instances of high-level corruption tainted his second term...
...National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence reported last week that the ambush triggering the Cleveland riot of July 1968 was a deliberate intensification of racial conflict in America. The upheaval, which began with an ambush by blacks on police, was markedly different from other major outbreaks. Violence was directed toward people, not property, and there were more white casualties than Negro. Three whites and four Negroes were killed, twelve whites and three blacks wounded in the ghetto gunfight. The report blamed the violence on "a small and well-equipped army of black extremists." Fred ("Ahmed") Evans, leader...
...extreme leftist, Pan-Arab intelligentsia; eight of its 24 members belong to the Sudan's Communist Party, the most entrenched in the Arab world. The Cabinet in turn is responsible to a Revolutionary Council of a "Free Officers Front," headed by the man who engineered the coup: Major General (he promoted himself from colonel overnight) Gaafar Mohamed Nimeri, 40, a dour single-minded soldier who received training at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Nimeri had earned his reputation as a daring soldier fighting the black guerrillas to the south. When other senior...
...melodic Mozartian fantasy and thunderous Wagnerian pageantry. Every coffee house has its tables of self-appointed critics; taxi drivers know all the gossipy details of each new backstage feud. Though impoverished Austria badly needed more practical things after World War II, one of the government's first major building activities seemed quite plausible to the Viennese. It was the $10 million reconstruction of the bombed-out Vienna State Opera...