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...Model Cities Policy Board performs two functions. Primarily it allocates money to "sub-contractors," local housing or child care. The Policy board members also constitute the Citizen Participation committee, which responds to complaints not addressed by other local organizations...
Many such sub-contractors have achieved tangible success. The Neighborhood Family Care Center, one of only three licensed clinics in the country run by local citizens, serves as a model of innovative citizen participation. Model Cities Child Care has aided over a hundred community mothers. Homeowners Rehab In., a 'sub-contractor' that secures low interest loans to improve the condition of substandard houses, continues to grow...
...make it more possible than it now is for section people in Expos. to reproduce student writing for classroom discussion, it might be better to eliminate one or two bureaucrats at the top in any case and hire more secretaries, or else use the money now spent on Directors, sub-Directors, etc. for a Xerox fund for all section people...
Russell, for example, gets off easy. Cogan tips the narcs, who bust him for deal ing. For Amato and Frankie, Cogan sub contracts a well-known torpedo. When the torpedo proves unreliable, Cogan "does a double" that compares to most literary killings as an IBM 360 compares to chicken tracks...
...reports of the torture of 100,000 South Vietnamese political prisoners. But with the perspective made possible by a year of "peace," it's easy to see that such facts don't explain the fascination Vietnam exerted on people all over the world. People die of hunger in sub-Saharan Africa, brutally and unnecessarily, every day. Portugal's attempts to prevent its African colonies' gaining independence involve warfare as sustained and as all-encompassing as the war that swept Indochina. And torture of political prisoners, even U.S.-financed torture, isn't uncommon enough to cause much of a stir...