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...Mansfield. He skillfully managed to restore $3.9 million in committee to an education program for Eskimo and Indian children -and was scheduled to meet in New Mexico early this week with Indian leaders to discuss the bill. He floor-managed a National Science Foundation bill that resulted in a half-billion-dollar authorization. He led a fight to kill a $45 million appropriation to extend the west front of the Capitol, a particularly fatuous project promoted by some of the Senate's leading Bourbons. Kennedy has also become once again one of the most prominent voices of dissent against...
...anxiety," as they refer to it. But today, two-thirds of the men and half of the women among West Germany's 61 million people are under 40 and had little or nothing to do with the war. If many of them are "Hitler's children," born during his rule, the Führer would surely disown them. They are painfully aware of their country's Nazi past; two years ago, a public opinion poll showed that 60% of those between the ages of 16 and 29 would rather live in another country...
Deep Misgivings. One reason for the party's good cheer was the recent news that Britain's balance of payments, for the first time in seven years, showed a $115 million surplus during the first half of this year. Since the effects of the 1967 devaluation of the pound are just starting to be felt in export orders, Britain probably has a good chance of extending its boomlet so long as world trade maintains its current brisk pace. Wilson, however, must still contend with deep national misgivings about his record and even deeper bitterness among trade unions, whose...
Cocky Attitude. Wilson's truculent "you-need-us-more-than-we-need-you" approach to the Market reflected growing public opposition to entry. A public-opinion poll published recently by the Daily Express showed that over half (54%) the voting-age population opposed Market membership and that only 30% was for it. Wilson's cocky attitude was clearly designed to inform the voters-and the Six-that he will not kowtow for a Common Market berth. Moreover, Conservative Leader Ted Heath, long a supporter of membership, responded to the same national feeling by declaring: "It must be absolutely...
Though government aid accounts for only 2% of the underdeveloped world's income, its influence is often decisive. Aid finances perhaps 10% of the total investment in third-world countries; in countries such as Pakistan, Jordan, Korea, India and Tunisia, it provides as much as half...