Word: aids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Romney and Detroit's Mayor Jerome Cavanagh were convinced that they would need Army aid: a wire went off to the White House saying that there was "reasonable doubt" that the situation could be contained. The President turned to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and, at 11:02 a.m., ordered up the paratroops-but sent them only as far as Selfridge Air Force Base outside Detroit, not into the riot area itself...
...billion federal deficit for the current fiscal year, Congress is in a cutting mood. The House has already axed the rent subsidy and rat-control programs, and last week the Senate Foreign Relations Committee lopped a whopping $736 million off the Administration's $3.4 billion foreign-aid request. But Congress also knows where charity begins. When a $276 million congressional housekeeping bill came to a vote recently, members hooted down proposals for a 5% reduction. And in a deficit-be-damned mood last week, the House passed, 375 to 26, a $4.6 billion public-works appropriations bill, $2 billion...
...things that irritate U.S. officers is that too often one ARVN unit will not come to the aid of another when the going gets tough. One night last May, a lone squad of Viet Cong-a dozen men-staged an attack on the headquarters of a 25th division battalion, killing 31 ARVN soldiers and three U.S. advisers. The battalion's three rifle companies were dug in a scant 300 yards away-and stayed there listening to the shooting while their comrades died...
...moderate income families purchasing homes. In other words, they argue that rent supplements are too costly, but that Percy's plan--their own Republican proposal--is not. Regardless of the merits of the Percy proposal, the use of it as a substitute for rent supplements is outrageous. Supplements aid the very poor, while the Percy bill would help only those people who could show enough income stability to maintain payments on their homes...
Student Publications: Student publications and the student press are a valuableable aid in establishing and maintaining an atmosphere of free and responsible discussion and of intellectual exploration on the campus. They are a means of bringing student concerns to the attention of the faculty and the institutional authorities and of formulating student opinion on various issues on the campus and in the world at large...