Word: aids
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...members, who often work 15 hours a day. His first top-priority assignment, suggested by Vice President Agnew, is to draft a coherent national urban policy, outlining the Federal Government's posture in relation to state and local authorities. One tentative conclusion: the Federal Government should flatly double aid to local governments when the Viet Nam war has ended, reforming the local funding mechanism to reward them on the basis of performance...
Stokes, 41, who had been boosted by Cleveland's press and industry, last May persuaded the private sector to ante up $10 million, primarily for housing and unemployment programs. That seed money for a much-touted "Cleveland: NOW!" effort has already sprouted more than $100 million in massive aid from federal matching fund programs. It has found jobs for 5,900 hardcore unemployed-more than a fourth of the city's total-and disbursed $500,000 to help black businessmen get started. It will create 4,600 new housing units by the end of next year...
...Pleiku in the Central Highlands and the sprawling supply base at Cam Ranh Bay. In the wake of the bombardments, the Communists attempted a few scattered small-scale ground probes. Infiltrating Communist infantry and sappers were loose in Danang, and local allied commanders decreed a 24-hour curfew to aid in flushing them out. In Saigon, a demolition squad slammed B40 rocket rounds into an isolated precinct station and killed four policemen before being driven off with their own loss of four dead. Long Binh, a U.S. headquarters and logistics base just north of Saigon, was hit by 80 mortar...
...last one fourth of the summer I saw how the other half lived. Working with Rice University in Houston and Loyola in New Orleans, I attempted to do essentially the same thing that FOCUS's western staff had been doing all summer-arranging admissions, financial aid, and living arrangements for a number of students coming in from the west and other parts of the South. I saw how the other half lived in another way--for the first time I was able to live in one room for more than five days, and to eat regular meals...
Small towns, especially, have been hard-hit by caved-in roofs and ripped power lines; at least a dozen communities have declared states of emergency and urgently requested state and federal aid...