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Even more frustrating for general officers is the fact that they do not even have official control of the troops under their command. West Germany has no operational general staff, and all its strategic plans and commands come from NATO headquarters in Belgium. Unlike other NATO powers, which allot part of their armed forces to NATO but keep command of the remainder, every single West German combat unit is under NATO command. Although a number of West German officers are mixed in with other allied officers in the NATO command structure, in practical terms the Bundeswehr is an extension...
...Department of Health, Education and Welfare will allot Title II moneys only for educational facilities, perhaps Harvard should, upon receiving a grant, make available from its endowment an equal amount: for use in the establishment of better school facilities for Boston ghetto dwellers; applied toward good low-cost housing in Cambridge; or perhaps committed to community rent-control projects...
...districts themselves, have begun a campaign to eliminate wealthy districts from the Title I rolls and concentrate the money in districts where poverty is something more than a curiosity recorded in 1960 census figures. The USOE has asked state education departments to use up-to-date welfare statistics to allot the money so that it will go to the most needy districts. The states, however, plead that local programs, once established, should not be abruptly, terminated, so the USOE has relented and allowed the states to make the change in a fashion reminiscent of the Supreme Court's "with...
Despite the parsimonious mood of Congress, McNamara is criticized for having failed to allot enough defense funds for long-range planning. For three years, the war has forced the Pentagon to skimp on research and development. Says John S. Foster Jr., 45, director of defense research and engineering: "If this trend were allowed to continue, our national technological position soon would be crippled...
...sure, Rockefeller's subject was not the stuff that stirs hurrahs. The New York Governor called for a nationwide, decade-long assault on urban atrophy. To be financed largely by issuance of bonds, his program would allot $30 billion to schools, parks and mass transit, and $60 billion to universities, hospitals and middle-income housing. He also called on industry to invest $60 billion in slum renovation. Unless a major effort of that scope is undertaken, Rocky argued, the U.S. will remain "at one and the same time the affluent society and the afflicted society." When Nixon appeared next...