Word: controling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Calculated Threats. A few weeks ago, this kind of violence had the approval of the clique of rich bluebloods who control Panama's government and businesses. Over the radio and in newspapers, they deliberately stirred up greater hatred for the U.S. after the Nov. 3 riots. Easily swaying the ignorant, ragged masses of the lower classes, the "oligarchy" (in the Panamanian expression) set out to force concessions from the U.S., chiefly greater purchases of zone supplies from Panamanian merchants, a bigger rental for the Canal Zone...
...summed up the citizens' committee idea in three words: passing the buck. Added Frank Stanton: "What is every body's business is nobody's business, and eventually becomes Government enterprise." Television should resist any sort of outside control. "We must be masters of our own house, and rise or fall on our own performance...
...good thing that in Connecticut and Massachusetts women should be subject to grievous suffering because Roman Catholic pressure refuses to allow even doctors to give information on birth control even to non-Catholics.* It was not a good thing for Christians to persecute and even burn heretics; it is not a good thing when Communism, in its dogmatic-religious aspect, persecutes and even executes deviationists...
...other views of the birth-control problem, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Birth control and the government's dollar loss were among the other topics Galbraith considered. Although population control is already vital to the economic development of many countries and may some day be necessary in the United States, he said , the government should keep the issue entirely out of foreign aid discussion...