Word: aids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon might lead the nation back into isolationist foreign policies and protectionist trade policies. In Asia, Latin America and Africa, many governments are concerned that the new Administration-or Congress-might cut back even further on foreign aid, despite Nixon's growing internationalist outlook...
Snow predicted that this "major catastrophe" would happen before the year 2000. "We shall, in the rich countries, be surrounded by a sea of famine, unless three tremendous social tasks are by then in operation." The tasks: massive grants of food, money and technical aid from rich nations to poor, perhaps amounting to 20% of the well-off countries' gross national products for 15 years; increased efficiency in food production by poor nations themselves; and new efforts in poor nations "to reduce or stop their population increase, with a corresponding reduction in the population increase in the rich countries...
...16th and farewell appearance before the ministers, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk was as candid as Lemnitzer, telling the European partners that they must carry a greater share of the burden. Rusk and U.S. Defense Secretary Clark Clifford offered only an estimated $50 million in fresh U.S. aid. They also promised to return to Europe for maneuvers two infantry brigades and four tactical Air Force squadrons that had been repatriated to the U.S. last year, to replace 80 F-102 interceptors with newer Phantom jets, and to build shelters for U.S. planes now parked on open ramps in West...
...first thing to look at is geography," Peter K. Gunness '57, Director of the Financial Aid Office of Harvard College, said. He compared the mailing of applications with election returns, in which results come in last from the rural and Southern areas of the country. He said that the suburban and prep school students are counseled better than applicants from lower income groups so that the former would tend to send in applications earlier. He added that the growth of suburbia contributes to the rise in applications...
...resolution also lists five specific steps--including denying ROTC the use of any campus buildings and replacing ROTC scholarships with Harvard financial aid--to oust ROTC from the University...