Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comfortably on its largely unfounded reputation as a fastness of racial fair play and equality. Because it beat chopping cotton or pushing brooms, blacks viewed the armed forces as an escape from a hostile world. That, it turns out, was a mistake. Even as civilian society makes slow, painful progress in civil rights, and black radicalism heightens blacks' sense of injustice, it has become increasingly clear that the military too has its full share of racism...
Saigon's first priority, however, is to get its people-especially those who swarmed into the cities in pursuit of U.S. dollars-accustomed to the idea that the days of easy money and easy goods are over. When the U.S. buildup was in progress, the regime encouraged massive imports (800,000 motorbikes came in during one two-year period) as one way of damping the inflationary effects of the massive influx of U.S. dollars. Two years ago, when the U.S. pullout began, Saigon tried to cut down the flow of goods through heavy import taxes, but the main effect...
Krol's human relations commission is credited with notable progress on poverty and race relations. But the diocese has been unable to ordain a single black priest. A year ago, the local priests' council issued a 60-page booklet listing its past recommendations to the cardinal. He has followed some, but without making any direct response to the council. Many others he has ignored-including recommendations for such widely followed practices as a personnel board to give priests a say in parish placement and diocesan encouragement of parish advisory councils...
...Gulf Coast strikes remains wages. It has been enormously complicated by a dispute over a New York provision for a guaranteed annual wage and by leadership tensions within the International Longshoremen's Association. Union President Thomas W. Gleason met with shipowners in Miami last week. No significant progress was reported, but President Nixon evidently remained reluctant to invoke Taft-Hartley on the East and Gulf coasts, preferring to give the disputants more time to work it out for themselves. Meanwhile, shippers who tried to avoid the dock mess in the U.S. by diverting their vessels to Canadian ports along...
Still, Chapin is convinced that he can steer American out of its troubles. For the moment, he seems to be making progress...