Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quinn Tamm, 58, is not a policeman at all, but he is one of the most influential voices for police reform in the country. He has been behind most of the chiefs' innovations and has been a prime mover in efforts to interest the colleges in crime and college men in crime fighting. A former assistant director of the FBI, Tamm became executive director of the International Association of Chiefs of Police in 1961, quickly turned it from a genial club into a highly expert organization that not only trains police administrators but, on request of city governments, studies...
...inner circle of Cabinet ministers has already submitted one set of specific industrial reforms to De Gaulle. He bounced them, instructing his ministers to draw up another set that would go much further. Though he seems fully committed to far-reaching reform, De Gaulle may find that he is pursuing mutually exclusive goals. As he grants more power to workers, for example, he almost certainly will frighten away the investment capital that he needs to revitalize and modernize France's ailing economy. And by polarizing the French, he has tended to build higher and stronger the wall that separates...
...spite of all Trudeau's popularity, the campaign was marked by considerable bitterness, including an outpouring of hate literature. There were even the expectable innuendoes based on his backing of the homosexual reform bill and his bachelor status. But Trudeau never lost his temper or became flustered, coolly shrugged...
Costa's Cabinet, going even further, urged an immediate reform of the country's educational system, arguing, with hindsight, that all the government's plans for technological development were jeopardized by Brazil's educational deficiencies. As a measure of good intentions, Costa ordered Dutra's ""Education Ministry to hand over to universities the operating funds that had been held up during the disorders...
When the students finally decided to speak out, it was university reform they wanted to discuss, but France sent its police, not its thinkers, to deal with them. The student catalogue of complaints is larger and more depressing than any list of grievances that U.S. students can compile. The Paris student seeking an advanced degree, such as the doctoral d'état (comparable to the American Ph.D.), faces six years of relentless scholastic competition as he fights his way, first to the diplome universitaire d'études littéraires (roughly equivalent to a B.A.), then through...