Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Nixon's role as peacemaker in China exists only insofar as he can improve the U.S. economic and political position by playing on Sino-Soviet tensions and by deflating antiwar opposition at home. It is as tragic as it is ironic that a student of John Foster Dulles' foreign policy should be the first American president to visit China in a generation. Already, in the administration's support of Pakistan over Bangladesh, the United States has paid some of the moral and material costs of Nixon's balance-of-power scheming...
...born former Harvard academic who is variously referred to by his governmental colleagues as "Henry the K," "Henry the Kiss," "Herr Doktor" and "the Metternich from Yonkers." Kissinger, 48, dominates U.S. foreign policy far more than any White House aide in recent memory, playing a role unequaled since John Foster Dulles ran a virtually one-man State Department for Dwight Eisenhower?and Dulles was, in fact, the Secretary of State. Kissinger has seized total control of the White House-based National Security Council, ordering 146 deep studies of actual or potential policy problems, ranging from arms limitations to riot control...
Dominica Morelli, 17, had been sexually assaulted by one of her alcoholic mother's four husbands. Moved to a foster home, she ran away and returned to her mother. Placed under a curfew, she made a trip without her mother's permission and was promptly charged with violating probation...
...last week, 236 youths were under sentence as wayward, and 221 of them, including the three girls, were out on parole or probation. They will now all go free, unless the state appeals. Says Judge Kaufman: "The state will simply have to find different ways to treat these youths. Foster homes, halfway houses-but not penal institutions...
...Henry Kissinger '50 and director of the 1969 Rand Project for the development of alternative plans for Vietnam which were presented to the National Security Council. Still, he saw his energy and intellect employed for wasteful, immoral, and inhuman ends. For any figure now in power who helped foster the Vietnam catastrophe, this recognition is the first step towards liberation; in order to create a future, one must first face up to his past...