Word: helpful
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Some time after President Johnson said that he would not run again, Robert McNamara, new president of the World Bank, fell into conversation with aides of Robert Kennedy. How might the former Defense Secretary help the campaign? Since he was barred from politics by the bank's charter, McNamara could not endorse Kennedy. But who could complain if he recounted Bobby's "energy and courage, compassion and wisdom" during the crises of his brother's Administration...
...help Park meet the threat, Special U.S. Envoy Cyrus Vance visited Seoul last February and promised to give Park $100 million in additional U.S. military aid this year on top of the normal $160 million. Drawing on this new account, Park is organizing a 2,500,000-man reserve that, on call, will help to patrol the coast, operate ground-surveillance radar stations and perform other such duties. He is also trying to modernize the country's 600,000-man armed forces, replacing World War II rifles with the new M16, buying U.S. helicopters for better troop mobility...
Ayub did, however, win some handsome consolation prizes. Kosygin agreed to bankroll Pakistan's first steel mill, a $100 million project in Kalabagh with a capacity of up to a million tons a year. He also offered to provide help on a nuclear power plant at Ruppur in East Pakistan, a radio hookup between Pakistan and Russia, and a fishery development. Most of them planned for completion after 1970, these projects should provide a big boost for Pakistan's next five-year plan, which begins that year. The present one, even though slowed down by the war with...
...Nino Petretto, 37, had originally refused to ransom him, in the end they decided that it was wiser to pay the bandits' $8,000 rather than risk his death or mutilation. Many islanders are still anxious to fight the bandits, but they know that they will need outside help to do it. The Italian government has dragged its feet even on appointing a commission that was approved by the Chamber of Deputies in Rome last November to look into the causes of banditry. Italian Interior Minister Paolo Taviani, who paid a hurried visit to the island this month, reported...
Perhaps realizing that they needed a little experienced help, the new junta, including not only sergeants but privates and police patrolmen as well, summoned home Colonel John Bangura, a counselor in Sierra Leone's Washington embassy, to head an interim ruling council. As second in command, the junta brought home Lieut. Colonel Patrick Genda, the ambassador to Liberia. As they arrived in Freetown, both men were greeted by happy crowds clutching signs that read "Welcome to Freedom" and "Welcome, Our Saviors...