Word: aids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Limping Along. Fordham Dean James R. Dumpson, who led an AID-sponsored month-long tour of refugee centers, estimated that the war has left nearly 2,000,000 South Vietnamese homeless. Some are North Vietnamese looking for a better life in the South. Many lowland peasants and mountain people flee their villages to escape Viet Cong control or because they are in the path of combat operations. Others are forced to move from battle areas by the government. Nearly half are children. Plowing into AID-staffed centers at the rate of 38,000 a month, the refugees are turning...
...AID's operation, limping along with its staff at two-thirds strength, provided dwellings for only 4,347 of 28,000 newly created refugee families last year. The U.S. budget for refugees has crept up to $35.6 million in fiscal 1968, an annual figure that is about half the daily U.S. expenditure on the war. Noting that the medical budget dropped from $37 million to $34 million this year, Kennedy said: "It's shocking to me, this complete lack of any kind of priority for the human problems...
...John Knowles, director general of Massachusetts General Hospital and spokesman for AID's medical team, recommended doubling the U.S. medical budget, bringing in more U.S. surgeons, training more Vietnamese doctors and starting an immunization program. For the refugees, witnesses urged a massive U.S. social-welfare program staffed by an augmented AID team. Said Dumpson: "If we don't give high priority to the needs of the people, I can see only real chaos and real suffering and losing the hearts and minds of the people...
Simply, these reformers are convinced that success on a series of high-pressure examinations should not be the main criterion for participation in "honorary" activities, like the Law Review. Board of Student Advisers, and Legal Aid Society. Nor do they feel that top law firms and government agencies should recruit only among exam whiz kids...
Many law students are also beginning to feel that more weight should be given to courses in legal writing and to school year jobs in legal aid offices and local agencies. Like many laymen, they think that legal training ought to get students to grapple with a lawyer's actual problems...