Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with AID and took an assignment in Phu Yen province, a hilly coastal area between Saigon and the North Viet Nam border. He was the only American in a region bristling with Viet Cong. In a short time, Grainger had begun to succeed in helping develop agricultural facilities, urban electrification, schools and health centers. "By the end of the summer," he wrote his mother and sister last May, "I hope to have 24-hour-a-day [electric] power. This will be an accomplishment for me. Tuy Hoa is the capital of the province and, therefore, must be the showplace...
...moves brought joy to landless peasants and urban workers but were resented by great landowners, who fear the loss of their power. Similarly, the conservative Moslem mullahs dislike the freedom of women and the decree that shrine lands are to be shared among the peasants. It is probably significant that the soldier who tried to kill the Shah last week came from southern Iran near the nation's religious capital of Qum, a hotbed of anti-Shah feeling...
...Federal Urban Renewal Administration has allocated $11.5 million for a 42-acre project in Kendall Square after deciding that the area qualifies for renewal under federal laws. The action marks a major step in locating a $60 million National Aeronautics and Space Administration research laboratory in the Square...
Opponents of the project have another discourse: the courts. They have already brought one action which was declared premature." Once an urban renewal plan is approved, however, a new appeal can be made. If the courts decide to issue a restraining order, construction of the NASA lab could be considerably delayed
...another issue has arisen which may change the Center's perspective again. Recently, the staff members learned that approximately one-third of Roxbury is slated for urban renewal during the next two or three years, and they have been unable to discover whether there are any plans for housing the evicted families. They view this issue, coupled with that of distribution of war-on--poverty funds, as the basis for a single neighborhood community union, which would incorporate all of the center's special issue groups...