Word: national
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their power. During the early years of the sixties l'UEC was without rival in the Latin Quarter, capable of mobilizing thousands in the streets in a few hours. When the OAS began its pro-war terrorist actions in both France and Algeria, and student groups, particularly Jeune Nation, rallied in support of the war, miltants of l'UEC organized the Front Universitaire AntiFasciste, FUA, to physically eliminate these fascists from the Latin Quarter...
...bloody clashes that resulted between the FUA and Jeune Nation were nothing new to the world of student polities. French student groups probably spend more time and energy infighting than they do organizing political action. Each group has a specially chosen "service d'ordre" to protect themselves and to attack others...
Obviously the ultimate decision on pot is a long way off. Meanwhile there is a growing consensus that mere law enforcement is wholly inadequate to the problems of drug abuse. Medical and psychological treatment needs to be improved and greatly expanded. The nation must also find new paths to prevention, cultivate social patterns that will encourage wise use of drugs?and eventually forestall the development of the drug-dependent personality...
...Pittsburgh protests and similar outbursts in Chicago reflect the increasing determination of embittered blacks to force organized labor to drop its color lines. Negroes have picked the nation's 17 construction unions as the prime target because most of them still practice flagrant racial discrimination. The protesters' ultimate aim is to rouse enough public and political pressure to compel all unions to give blacks equal access to skilled, well-paid jobs. In Buffalo and Chicago, the N.A.A.C.P. this month filed the first of a threatened series of federal lawsuits to block publicly financed construction until unions, contractors...
...site, for which Busch paid the restoration corporation $3,500,000, is in James City County, the nation's oldest. Mounting educational costs have led the county to the edge of bankruptcy. The Busch project could double the county's $80 million tax base in a few years. The development is also likely to attract more tourists to Williamsburg. Perhaps some will emulate Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, all of whom were known to hoist a few brews in those very environs almost 200 years...