Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene in the packed Senate galleries looked almost like a replay of the great civil rights celebrations of the 1960s. Black leaders, including Martin Luther King Sr., Coretta King, Urban League Director Vernon Jordan and N.A.A.C.P. Chief Benjamin Hooks, applauded, cheered and embraced. With one vote to spare, the Senate last week approved, 67 to 32, a constitutional amendment that would give the District of Columbia two Senators and one or two Representatives, depending on the outcome of the 1980 census. Already passed by the House, the bill now heads to the states for ratification...
...even greater power to entrenched federal bureaucrats. In addition, they complained that the rights of a state would be given to a city. Other objections were unstated, at least in public. The District, complained cloakroom critics, suffered from the "four too's": too black, too liberal, too Democratic, too urban. Nor has home rule proved an unmixed blessing. Mayor Washington's administration has been marred by inefficiency and scandal...
...second group, headed by Acting President Moi, is made up of politicians and business leaders who are mainly Western educated. Their power is derived from their wealth and urban business connections. Moi, a hard-working but color less politician, is actually a member of the minority Kalenjin tribe. But he is strongly supported by two competent Kikuyu members of the Kenyatta Cabinet, Attorney General Charles Njonjo, 58, and Finance and Economic Planning Minister Mwai Kibaki...
Much of the emigration is the consequence of Hanoi's efforts to relocate southern urban residents in so-called New Economic Zones?often tracts of uncultivated jungle. Officially, the relocations are voluntary. Says one Communist official: "We try to persuade them." Maybe. But during their Saigon stay, members of the U.S. delegation observed a squad of Vietnamese soldiers, armed with AK-47 assault rifles, descending on Cholon to round up a truckload of ethnic Chinese for no apparent reason...
Since then the boosters have been doing much brawling, mostly over what urban-area Jaycees see as the organization's dominant rural conservatism. Massachusetts Jaycees officials have voted to battle the no-women order with a lawsuit, even though a 1974 ruling by a federal appeals court upheld the group's right to ban women. Leaders of the all-male Louisville chapter, largest in the organization (735 members), have called for admission of females. So, less surprisingly, has the Chicago chapter (234 men, 136 women), which withdrew from the national organization in protest. Complains Chapter President Joan Petranovich, a secretary...