Word: aids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There were disappointments. The Russians again snubbed his bid for friendlier relations. Congress threatened to cut his modest $2.9 billion foreign aid program by one-third. Though Administration officials noted "some movement" in the Paris peace talks, it still seemed too slight to justify his March 31 renunciation of a second term...
Where will the cuts come from? House committees last week sliced into foreign-aid funds and into the proposed budgets of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the Office of Economic Opportunity. Congress thus showed an alarming eagerness to chop hardest at politically vulnerable programs despite their proven value-one in furthering U.S. policy abroad, the others in coping with urgent problems at home. Military spending not directly related to Viet Nam will likely be reduced as well, along with the space program and such public works as highway construction and waterway improvement. The Federal Aviation Agency...
...blues, purples and whites of ancient aristocrats memorialized in stained glass above the heads of their descendants. The lords milled about, unaccustomed to the crush. The confusion became so great that at one point Lord Salisbury, 74, struggling to his feet, got tangled in the cord of his hearing aid and nearly fell to the carpet. Lord Byers, his debating opponent, remarked solicitously: "I do hope the noble lord has not hanged himself...
...could not forget the nation's new open-housing law just passed by Congress. Though it does not start to go into effect until next year, it provides sanctions against those who discriminate in the sale of housing -except for individuals who sell their own property without the aid of a real estate agent, or who rent rooms in a boarding house that they own and live in. That is the legislative will of 1968, said Harlan, and the court should not go beyond it. The majority countered the argument by observing that Congress had carefully noted that...
Heavy-handed amateur ironies prevail. A Polaroid commercial is doctored to show a still of a dead soldier; a Band-Aid commercial is spliced into combat scenes. Only bits and pieces of conversation with Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro give anything like a sense of ideological actuality. The rest has the secondhand look of a film that has been petulantly edited, as the title implies, far from Viet...