Word: aids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What little movement there was bred new delay and debate. A Senate-House conference committee ended a two-month impasse over the foreign aid authorization bill, recommending $2.67 billion-$780 million less than the Administration had requested. The conference also decided to abolish a loan program that finances allied arms purchases in the U.S. Meanwhile, a House appropriations subcommittee drew up a different measure that provided even less money and more restrictions on military aid. The bill raising Social Security benefits that is emerging in the Senate is far more generous than the one already voted in the House, while...
Technical Aid. Humphrey had two other important stops to make before he got back to Gripesville. The first was Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia, where Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman said that Malaysia is considering a revival of its rural-assistance program to South Viet Nam, which lapsed with the assassination of President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963. Malaysia already trains South Vietnamese in police work and American troops in jungle techniques. Warned by the Tunku that Communist China will certainly capture all of Southeast Asia if the war is lost, Humphrey repeated in essence what he had said...
From Malaysia, Humphrey flew on to Djakarta; he was the first top-ranking American to visit the Indonesian capital since "President for Life" Sukarno was eased from power 16 months ago. Fearful that American visibility would only aid the Reds in their comeback attempts, the U.S. has maintained a "low profile" position in Indonesia since the anti-Communist resurgence against Sukarno began in October...
...program, Chester W. Hartman '57, assistant professor of City planning, said the Madison Park Area in Roxbury might be the site for one of the planning projects. "I do not want the projects to be limited to just those poverty areas where people assume the need for aid in planning," he said...
...Stalin's "dream" of acquiring a buffer zone along Russia's western border had come true. Kennan dismisses as absurd the notion that Stalin's expansionist appetite was fed by fears of the U.S. or anger at not being offered enormous sums of American aid. He recalls what a Soviet friend told him in 1944: "This is something you should bear in mind about the Russian. The better things go for him, the more arrogant he is. When we are successful, keep...