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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convinced that the only way to improve the situation is by amalgamating or pooling thousands of such small police forces so that a single authority can oversee population groups of at least 50,000. It also recommends: - New, standardized communications equipment to provide most patrolmen with cigarette-pack-size walkie-talkies that would keep them in constant touch with headquarters...
Instant Reprisals. Not to mention Huk terrorism, which is the tie that binds together all the other Huk influences. The Huk organization is small, dedicated and tightly disciplined. Led by Faustino Delmundo, alias Commander Sumulong, it has purposely kept down its size so as not to attract the main force attention of the Philippine military. The terrorist arm of the movement comprises no more than 160 killers (supported by another 150 local armed guerrillas), who roam the central Luzon countryside in bands of three or four, meting out instant reprisals to anyone who dares defy Huk orders. In the past...
...Committee could build few enough schols--of great enough size--to prevent such seeping imbalance in the future. But the Committee feels strongly that "racially imbalanced schools cannot be eliminated in a large city school system...by any one method yet devised." "The panacea is yet to be discovered," they conclude...
Coffin's recent appeal was met with a great deal of enthusiasm by seminarians throughout the country. Some 250 students had plans to turn in their draft cards, confident that they would not be arrested because of the size of the group. "But we realized that they would just pick off the leaders," John E. Cuppels, second year Divinity student who is organizing the conference, said, and the movement lost strength...
...carry more intellectual clout. Says Karel Reisz, who directed Morgan!: "The literacy gap between the people who are making films and those who are seeing them has narrowed." The kids still flip for spoof spectaculars like Goldfinger, but they just don't believe in 40-acre bathrooms and proscenium-size smiles. "The grand image no longer awes the spectator," says Director Claud Lelouch (Un Homme et Une Femme). "He recognizes a smooth but forced décor and performance as unnatural. There is much less hypocrisy in films today...