Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...operation in which there was so little rational expectation of success"); on Lenin's Imperialism ("Not even a committed discuvpe could think it an impressive document, although many have risen to the challange"); and the old Democratic Party ("semi-literates from the rural South and semi-criminals from the urban North...
...grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Its purpose: to bring art to the countryside-and also bring forth the creative talents of local teenagers. "We wanted to give rural children a chance to use their imaginations," says Arts Board Executive Director Jerrold Rouby, "the same way urban mural programs have got ghetto kids involved in art." In two years some 300 youngsters, working under professional artists-in-residence, have taken up paintbrushes...
Long Struggle. To replace everything that was swept away, the HEW plan would provide a sort of guaranteed income at a minimal level-somewhat like former President Nixon's Family Assistance Plan, which would have given cash grants to the unemployed and working poor. An urban family of four would have a basic cash benefit of $4,400 a figure 25% below the current poverty level as determined by the Federal Government. A single adult would get $2,250; a widow living with two children would receive $3,600. But there would be a catch: to receive aid, every...
...have been equipped until recently by the U.S. The regime is embattled on several fronts. One is the northern province of Eritrea, where the Sudanese-supported Eritrean Liberation Front, after more than a decade of fighting, claims it controls two districts and has Ethiopian forces pinned down in other urban areas. Another is the Somali border, where Ethiopians and Somalis have quarreled. Meanwhile the French Territory of Afars and Issas, with its key port of Djibouti, which provides an Ethiopian rail link to the sea, gains independence from Paris next month. Both Ethiopia and Somalia covet...
...past few years increasing numbers of Haitians, Colombians, Jamaicans, Greeks, Filipinos and Nigerians have joined the migration. The aliens used to do mainly farm work in the South and Southwest. But they have now established enclaves in major urban centers. According to the Immigration and Naturalization Service estimates, there are 50,000 illegal aliens in Washington, D.C., more than 500,000 in Chicago and 1.3 million in the New York metropolitan area. Says Leonard Chapman, who stepped down last month as commissioner of the INS: "We have become the haven for the unemployed of the world. I think...