Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Interstate Commerce Commission proposed $150 million to $200 million a year in stopgap aid and imposition of a 1% tax on all rail, truck or barge freight movements in the country, with the aim of raising another $400 million a year to keep the Northeast railroads running. The next day President Nixon's new Secretary of Transportation, Claude S. Brinegar, rejected the idea of a federal bail-out and proposed instead a kind of freight version of Amtrak, the quasi-Government corporation that runs long-distance passenger trains (TIME, March 26). Brinegar would create one or more corporations, with...
...State Department and the the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) betrayed the original objectives of the Alliance. Instead of bettering social conditions, the loans started to aim towards narrowly-defined economic development. The theory is that the growth of business will bring a stable currency and more jobs. The benefits will filter down to the lower classes. Loans thus focused on large-scale enterprises. If a democratic government was economically unstable, it did not get a loan...
When members of the militant American Indian Movement (AIM) seized this wind-swept hamlet on February 27, Bad Cob, a life-long resident of the Pine Ridge reservation, stayed inside the occupied village...
...meetings are part of a peace accord signed last Thursday by top AIM leader Russell C. Means and assistant attorney general Kent Frizzell. The accord brought an end to the 37-day occupation of Wounded Knee...
...more in Irene Gendzier's attempt than she actually achieves. Gendzier, an associate professor of history at Boston University, set out first, she says, "to write a psychohistory" that would relate the development of Fanon's "inner forces" to his public life. But she abandoned that aim, in part because the evidence proved hard to get. Fanon's widow, for example, refused to be interviewed. Gendzier then turned to what she subtitles "a critical study." It bears its best fruit in the rediscovery of Fanon's least-known works, the several professional psychiatric papers he wrote...