Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when he considers the time right. Rockefeller in recent months has been studiously sticking to state affairs, venturing afield as a rule only in his capacity as chairman of the Republican Governors Association policy committee. Seven months ago, the committee put out a 60-point package on urban problems similar in some respects to the presidential riot commission's report last week...
...POLICE. More Negroes should be recruited and promoted in urban police departments. Increased police protection should be given to the ghettos; policy guidelines should be established to help patrolmen make decisions in tense situations. Police should be given special training in the prevention and control of riots. Strict rules should be written covering the use of riot-control weapons, and alternative, nonlethal equipment should be developed. The commission condemned police departments that are preparing for a long, hot summer simply by buying such destructive weapons as tanks and machine guns. "Weapons which are designed to destroy, not to control...
...HOUSING. The President only last month asked Congress in his urban message for 6,000,000 units for low-and moderate-income families within ten years, a program that Congress is not likely to pass without major surgery. But the commission nonetheless recommended that the building time be speeded up. Six million units should be built in five years, 600,000 of them in the next year...
...government ministries and a full 90% of the top-and middle-level administrative jobs in private business. Thousands of skilled and unskilled workers from other African lands have flocked into the country as well, until foreigners now account for more than half of the Ivory Coast's salaried urban working force and an amazing 25% of the country's 4,000,000 people...
...surprising. North Vietnam has been historically an elitist society, dominated by mandarins even more estranged from the peasantry than their better-known Chinese counterparts. And Hanoi, while destroying traditional class lines, has helped replace the old elite with another by consistently favoring its heavy industry and relying on its urban classes to lead the country out of poverty...