Word: urbanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Riverbed Rallies. Last summer, when Park first announced his intention to amend the constitution, there were cries of "dictatorship," and Korea's volatile students took to the streets. Most of them supported the more liberal, urban-oriented New Democratic Party, and they feared that Park and his rural-based Democratic Republican Party were trying to perpetuate their control indefinitely. When Park sought approval from the National Assembly to hold a national referendum, the opposition New Democrats seized the speaker's rostrum in the red-carpeted Assembly chamber and refused to yield it through four days of 24-hour...
...clerical advisory council of elected members, and invited the auditing of the diocese's finances by a lay committee. One of his first moves was to appoint the Rev. P. David Finks, a youthful clergyman involved in civil rights causes, to serve as his "vicar for the urban ministry" in charge of slum problems...
...employers all over the country to aid in placement of the unemployed. On the other hand, the President sent to Congress a billion-dollar program to combat hunger, despite Burns' strenuous objections that it was unnecessary and cost too much. To intimates, Burns has characterized Nixon's Urban Affairs adviser Pat Moynihan in one word: "Spender...
CBLF was founded five months ago to deal "first-hand" with urban ghetto problems where federal and municipal authorities have allegedly failed. It is presently seeking financial and material support from citizens, business, and churches in the Riverside area...
TRUFFAUT has no urge to make any political or social commentary about the individual vs, society in urban life. His camera is rather a detached but passionate observer of society. The lightness of his treatment provides an underlying optimism in his attitude towards society...