Word: aids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...senior tutor said last night that it seemed the Faculty still has the power to decide about scholarships if they choose to do so. "This summer, the Faculty Committee on Financial Aid limited the total possible reduction in scholarships as a result of probation to $500 a year per student," he said. "Most reductions in scholarships are converted to loans," he added...
...Senate must still consider-and will probably approve-the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. But foreign aid and trade agreements may lead to sulfurous squabbles. The aid program seems destined to be squeezed down still further, and protectionists will again be seeking assistance for some domestic industries. There is also a resolution pending in the Senate that would demand congressional approval before the President commits U.S. forces overseas. On the troop issue, Kennedy reflects an executive rather than a legislative viewpoint, observing that such infringements on presidential powers get into "dangerous waters." But he would like to see the Senate...
EUGENE McCARTHY took another step yesterday into the realm of the enigmatic, surrendering his seat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in order to make room for Wyoming's Gale McGee and indirectly--very indirectly--aid Chairman J. William Fullbright's efficiency schemes. McCarthy's action came as a small shock to his colleagues, including McGee himself. It no doubt also served to strengthen the impression held in not a few quarters that McCarthy has gone over the political deep...
...budget as a whole is in bad shape because we're spending $86 billion on our own military, and a lot of our foreign aid money on war toys for tin horn dictators. Not because we're spending what we do in space...
...money went for a variety of services and hardware that includes 800 police whistles, $170 sirens and $100,000 helicopters. Such spending will grow at least 10% annually for the next five years. The Safe Streets Act, which Lyndon Johnson signed in June, will increase federal anti-crime aid from $63 million in 1968 to as much as $500 million in 1972. Richard Nixon also wants to strengthen the nation's undermanned police forces and generally "make it less profitable and a lot more risky to break our laws...