Word: funds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Haiti's troubles can only get worse. Graft and corruption have sucked the economy dry, the government is two years behind in some of its bills, and there are strong fears in Port-au-Prince that the International Monetary Fund, which has been loaning Duvalier as much as $4,000,000 a year, may cut off his credit. Last week the only Haitians without a complaint were the voodoo priests, who have been doing a thriving business casting spells and consulting the spirits for nervous clients. Temple altars in Port-au-Prince were bright with new candles, Christmas lights...
...arms loans for another five years, it will face an even sterner challenge this week when the President's foreign aid bill reaches the Senate. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has trimmed $736 million from Johnson's requests-including the Defense Department's $383 million revolving fund for arms loans to poorer countries...
...National Council on the Arts and the J. M. Kaplan Fund announced a joint project to convert the eight-building Bell Telephone Laboratories on Manhattan's Lower West Side into a $10 million artists' center providing housing for 500 painters, writers, musicians, dancers and film makers. At the same time, Lyons Houses, which owns' a chain of dollar-a-night hotels on New York's Bowery (where artists have traditionally hobnobbed with derelicts) began renovating one of them, the Alabama, into studio housing, eventually may follow suit with others. And in Brooklyn Heights, the city...
Occupants of William James Hall have coughed up about $200 for campaign contributions to five United States Senators who oppose the war in Vietnam. Ten graduate students who have been canvassing the 15-floor building for about three weeks hope to widen their fund drive to reach the whole University this fall...
...gauge the response in percentage of people rather than in size of contributions, we have been quite successful," Paul Lehrer, graduate student in Clinical Psychology and head of the fund-raising group said yesterday. The biggest contribution--$50--is earmarked for Frank Church...