Word: rural
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mary Mebane's rhetoric of past injustice and special privilege in our society during the '40s reminded me of my introduction to black people. I grew up in rural South Dakota, where blacks were seldom seen. Then I joined the Navy. I knew of no reason not to sit by a black man on a city bus in Norfolk, Va. Consequently I was astounded when the black passengers screamed "White trash!" and "Move up where you belong!" On the other hand, the whites seemed content with casting hateful looks in my direction...
...problem: rush-hour crowds require heavier overhead, but do not generate enough revenue to cover all off-hour operations. A pattern emerged in which budget deficits were picked up by the Federal Government or, more often, the states. The politics of mass transit sharpened old rivalries: downstate vs. upstate, rural vs. urban...
...small spark in Poland's eight-month confrontation between the government and the reform-minded unionists of Solidarity could touch off a conflagration. Last week in Bydgoszcz (pop. 300,000), 140 miles northwest of Warsaw, the flash was almost struck. For three days, farmers demanding their own union, Rural Solidarity, had occupied a government building. Somehow, the tensions of the peasant sit-in swirled across town to another meeting at the Bydgoszcz provincial council building, where local Solidarity members and Rural Solidarity activists sought to discuss the situation with the Provisional People's Council...
Violent crimes in once tranquil rural areas also increased by 13% last year. "Many residents now live in fear of returning to an empty, isolated home," says Sheriff Robert L. Howard of Tompkins County in upstate New York. "The open-door policy of a decade ago is gone." The fact that almost everyone knows his neighbor has long been a protection in the countryside. Murders, muggings or shootings have not notably increased, but house break-ins and auto and farm-equipment thefts have risen dramatically. One definite trend: thieves from urban areas ranging hundreds of miles to loot rural homes...
...credit goes to the government, which aggressively pushes free condoms and pills. But some think Mechai, the father of one child, has done at least as much as the bureaucracy. His flair has popularized the program, and his private network of distributors has spread contraceptives deep into remote rural areas...