Word: efforts
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Like his earlier trip abroad, the newest expedition will be primarily a fact-finding effort. The chief concern, of course, will be Viet Nam (which he is not scheduled to visit) and the shape of post-war Asia. The President, said a White House official, "wants to begin to lay the foundation for a post-Viet Nam South Asia policy. He has had a long-standing concern for the region and is convinced that the U.S. must remain a Pacific power. In the long term, the concern is for a lasting Asian peace in which we are not dragged into...
Sophisticated Effort. Explaining the Administration's view, Mitchell said: "We have come to the firm conclusion that voting rights are no longer a regional issue. They are a national concern for every American which must be treated on a nationwide basis." His rationale failed to impress committee members, liberal Congressmen and the only other witness to testify last week, Clarence Mitchell of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...Administration's could be maneuvered through Congress. The committee's senior Republican, William McCulloch of Ohio, also favors a five-year extension of the 1965 act. So does the N.A.A.C.P.'s Mitchell, who described the Administration's proposal as a "sophisticated, calculated and incredible effort by the chief lawyer of the United States to make it impossible to exercise the tools we have to ensure the right to vote...
Still, most Peruvians seemed at first look to feel that the junta, for better or for worse, had taken a significant step in the effort to solve a problem that besets not only Peru but most of Latin America...
...organized a seminar to study curriculum reform. It was so successful that he was paid $800 from the dean's special fund to spend a summer writing up the seminar's recommendations. Result: the 415-page "Magaziner Report," which Harvard Sociologist David Riesman has called "a herculean effort, an impressive document...