Word: allowables
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...country's sphere of influence. Secretary of State Dean Rusk stressed the U.S. resolve to protect West Germany and West Berlin from aggression. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko emphasized the Soviet Union's determination to retain its hold on Eastern Europe and warned that Russia would not allow any outsider "to snatch even one link" from the Socialist community of nations...
Clever Timing. In the days before the Czechoslovak crisis, Foreign Minister Willy Brandt held that West Germany should allow the Communists to operate as a legal party if it expected his new Ostpolitik to achieve its goal: establishing normal relations with the East bloc. But at that time, East German Boss Walter Ulbricht stonewalled Brandt's plan by ordering West German Reds to stay underground. Ulbricht feared that the West German diplomatic initiatives would isolate his unpopular satrapy; therefore he wanted to be able to denounce Bonn throughout Eastern Europe by pointing out the Federal Republic's "persecution...
Congressional anger at students was so strong that a Senate-House conference was afraid to remove the ban completely. The relatively liberal conferees softened it to allow universities to act as they wish, but the cutoff provision still stands as an expression of the strong feeling in Congress...
...deal harshly with protestors. Colleges which seem to be "coddling" their demonstrating students will probably face serious reprisals, especially if a President Nixon is blessed with a Republican House. Reactionaries in the Senate have already demonstrated their capacity to strike back at uncooperative administrators: any college which refuses to allow military recruiters on campus will be denied NASA research grants, as a result of a Republican-sponsored amendment to an appropriation bill this summer...
Ford's proposal would allow anyone who pays tuition for a college student to claim a credit on his income tax. But the maximum allowance of $325 would not help any student's family very much, and poorer families with a small tax payment would receive almost no benefit. "Tax credit" is a difficult phrase to resist, though, and only sustained opposition from the Johnson Administration killed it in the House last year...