Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Double Folly. Nothing could be more remote from Richard Nixon's intentions. To accept willingly new U.S. ground-combat commitments in Southeast Asia would be folly on both strategic and political grounds, and the White House knows it. The quarrel is not over U.S. intentions but over the methods...
So great are the numbers that they numb: no mind can do the sums of individual anguish, privation and frustration that make up the whole. In Chicago, Welfare Director David L. Daniel says that the Cook County rolls will increase from 485,000 at the end of 1970 to 625...
The failure of the U.S. welfare system is also, in large measure, a defeat for liberalism?not for its goal or faith but for its methods. The system was begun as an absolute necessity and did stave off disaster in the Depression. In 1935, when unemployment had reached 11.11% of...
An administrative machine with such unique qualities is not purchased cheaply. Ellis Murphy, 53, soft-spoken but increasingly bitter, runs one of the biggest welfare departments in the country in Los Angeles County. He has the doubtful guidance of the county welfare regulations, which he dutifully keeps just outside his...
Despite White House assertions that there is no U.S. commitment to ensure the survival of the Lon Nol government, the Administration seems determined to prove Sihanouk wrong. Soon after the Pochentong disaster, the Pentagon sent two new UH-1 ("Huey") helicopters to Phnom-Penh-a start at rebuilding the broken...