Word: help
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...design for Asia's future, there is no room for heavy-handed American pressures; there is need for subtle encouragement of the kind of Asian initiatives that help bring the design to reality...
...President now stresses Asian action on Asian problems. Nixon will ask Asian leaders the extent to which they would be willing to help supervise elections in Viet Nam and police a ceasefire. He is also lending discreet support to the embryonic five-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as a means of shaping a regional community. Underlying all considerations is the overweening presence of Communist China...
...hostage until the Administration agrees to significant tax-reform measures. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and the members of the Democratic Policy Committee suffered a setback earlier when the Senate Finance Committee reported out the House extension bill intact. But last week they received welcome reinforcements. The help took the form of action by the potent House Ways and Means Committee on a tax package that is stronger than either the Senators or most proponents of reform had dared to hope...
...depletion allowance and the tightening of write-off provisions that are now enjoyed by the oil industry are expected to bring in just $600 million a year in additional revenues, the psychological impact of the cuts would be great. The depletion allowances, whose whole purpose is to help offset the costs of finding and exploiting new mineral sources, are regarded by many as the most blatant example of special tax privilege for industry...
Communist Gains. Now, however, the game is no longer being played by the old rules. This year, the Communists have so successfully carried their annual offensive into the rainy season that Souvanna Phouma last week asked the French government to help "put a stop" to what he described as "invasion" by North Viet Nam. In Washington, the U.S. announced that it, too, was perturbed over recent Communist gains...