Word: aids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hubert Humphrey first proposed or was largely responsible for the passage of important progressive programs that are now part of our way of life. They include Medicare, Food for Peace, the Peace Corps, the Disarmament Agency, the Job Corps, aid to college students, and key advances in civil rights. Kennedy has pioneered no single successful advance. He now tells us we must "move this nation in a different direction." But exhortations do not make change. Although these two candidates have essentially similar progressive views, only one has shown the ingenuity and political competence to bring about positive change. Humphrey will...
...TIME'S cover story on poverty [May 17] prompted these thoughts: I believe that if we spent just one-half of what we now allow for Aid for Dependent Children on the building and staffing of good resident institutions-call them orphanages if you must-and set up the legal and social-work procedures needed to get a majority of hard-core poor children into these institutions at an early age, we could make some real progress toward eliminating the evils associated with poverty. Children must develop in something other than a degenerating social and physical environment if they...
Wanted: Wilbur Mills. The arrests were made when more than 200 demonstrators marched to the Hill to demand that Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills and his potent House Ways and Means Committee repeal recent amendments limiting eligibility for the Aid for Dependent Children program. Mills has supplanted Lyndon Johnson as the pet hate of Negro militants-they plan to put up "Wanted" posters throughout the city, charging the Congressman with "conspiracy against children." Mills refused to see a delegation of the protesters. "I don't convene the committee on anyone's demands, not even the President...
...presenting its case to the all-male jury, the prosecution charged that the five conspired "to unlawfully, knowingly and willfully counsel, aid and abet" young Americans in evading the draft. Lawyers for the defense answered the charges with the argument that the free-speech guarantee of the First Amendment shielded their clients from prosecution...
...staging a candid examination of the difficulties of living off welfare. Houston's KPRC continues a similar series with a discussion of the role of the police. Chicago's WTTW has just launched a lively Today-type show called Our People. Guests include Negro entertainers, Legal Aid staffers who tell viewers their rights in dealing with ghetto merchants, and city officials who are grilled on Negro grievances...