Word: unites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...innovations had been a controversial unit within the police force called STRESS (Stop the Robberies, Enjoy Safe Streets) to deal with street crime...
...blacks complained that they were too often the targets of the unit's quick-on-the-trigger whites; in their first four months in action, STRESS officers killed eight blacks. Young promised to disband STRESS, put more cops on the beat, and decentralize the 5,500-member force by setting up 50 neighborhood police stations. In the end, the election was decided chiefly along racial lines: 92% of the blacks voted for Young; 91% of the whites for Nichols. In a city now more than 50% black, Young won with a 14,000-vote margin...
...annually and the highest per capita ownership of backyard swimming pools in the state?all because it happens to be handy to the interstate highway that vacationers travel to the Badlands, the Black Hills and Mount Rushmore. Now a local construction firm has postponed building a $300,000, 46-unit motel, and Herb Pantke, 63-year-old attendant at one of the gas stations, has become the first person in town to lose his job because of the energy crisis; the station had to close up this month because it could find no gas to sell. Wall residents are beginning...
Overseas, there has been little impact so far from charges that Kissinger was responsible for raising the security concerns in the White House that led to the organization of the "plumbers" unit. Kissinger acknowledges that he had a sense of outrage when the Pentagon papers were published. Not only did he think that it was morally wrong for Daniel Ellsberg to leak the papers, but he was deeply concerned that their publication would destroy negotiations with the North Vietnamese and the Chinese. Although Kissinger stressed the dangers of leaks in his talks with Nixon, he insists that he never...
...Dorian-whose members range in age from 36 to 41-evolved from a group formed during the 1961 summer season at Tanglewood. Since then, shifts in personnel (only Taylor, who left the New York City Opera orchestra for the Dorian, is a survivor of the original unit) have entailed a search for players of a very special type. Each, like exuberant Clarinetist Jerry Kirkbride, must be of soloist caliber yet have the temperament that prizes subtle, intimate musical expression over the splashy sound and bravura display of solo and orchestral work. Each, whether he is naturally lighthearted, like Flutist Karl...