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Dates: during 1970-1979
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UNTIL THEN, the management of police personnel should be a major tool in providing better protection against crime in minority communities. As Brighton Detective Rufo pointed out, since the rapes took place in his community, and his district, he wanted to see the violence stopped as much as anyone else. Roxbury, Dorchester and South End residents, are entitled to the same degree of diligence from their police officers. And they need more black and Hispanic police appointed and assigned to their neighborhoods...

Author: By Michel D. Mcqueen, | Title: As Different as Night and Day | 3/17/1979 | See Source »

...property in Vietnam, not an original NLF proposal. The idealistic people in the NLF sought to rely upon the power of Hanoi to overthrow the Saigon government, but once the objective was realized the Communists in Hanoi had no need for the NLF which they looked on as a tool," Toai says...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Tales From the 'Vietnamese Gulag' | 3/13/1979 | See Source »

...monograph printed by the Institute of the Far East of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (there is a similar institute devoted to American studies) is called Destinies of Culture in the People's Republic of China. It makes the charge that Peking views the arts as "an ideological tool of its rule," as if Moscow did not. Official choice of works on China to be translated into Russian is equally tendentious. One newly distributed book, translated from Japanese, states that China presents a picture of "lawlessness elevated to a way of life, oppression of the masses, contempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Shades of Genghis Khan | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...great American experiment is fast approaching its second childhood. If tutorials are ever to regain their value as a pedagogical tool, faculty must collectively commit themselves to the business of educating undergraduates...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Tutorials: Aging Gracelessly | 3/10/1979 | See Source »

...reason on God's green earth for taking the taxpayer's money in order to nuture those happy hotdogs of the intellectual left who would love to get on the air and read their gaga poems at public expense." The commission characterizes public broadcasting as an "absolutely indespensable tool for our people and our democracy," adding the United States should be willing to spend five dollars a year per person to finance a system equivalent to the British Broadcasting Company or Japan...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: A Little Too Scalpel Happy | 3/9/1979 | See Source »

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