Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guide but also a difficult-and at times embarrassing-host. While Jackie was in Angkor, he had called a press conference to lecture the captive visiting newsmen on his pet peeve: references to "tiny" Cambodia in the foreign press. He said that "America did not come to Asia to help yellow people; it came to exploit Asia as a neocolonialist power." Later, he took time out from escorting Jackie to receive the new Czech Ambassador to Cambodia and condemn "the criminal American aggression against Viet Nam that menaces our country"-while his Foreign Affairs Ministry issued one of its frequent...
With his devaluation, Gestido finally did what the International Monetary Fund has been urging him to do for months. In the past, Gestido's economic policy stressed self-help over foreign loans, since help from abroad almost always demands austerity measures. Then last March, he made his first shift in policy and appealed to the IMF for help, austerity or not. "The road of isolationism and internal effort," he said in a televised speech, "is too long, painful and perhaps sterile in today's world." Five of Gestido's eleven Cabinet ministers quickly resigned, and when insults...
...ecumenism," the committee will attempt to arouse Negro churches to a keener awareness of their own responsibilities. It plans to form a nonprofit corporation that will solicit funds from Negro congregations and other sources to finance housing and small businesses in urban ghettos. The committee will also try to help Negroes in predominantly white churches achieve a greater voice in policy. According to Payton, the organization represents "an effort to relate to the Black Power movement without adopting a philosophy of separation or black superiority. Our definition of Black Power is the power to participate...
...fact that man is capable of sin and has free choice between good and evil," says the Rev. John Lind, assistant pastor of New York City's Roman Catholic Church of the Resurrection-Ascension. "The great theological problem is to determine what our free choices are. With the help of psychology, we are beginning to understand that there are forces at work in a human being that can lessen his culpability...
...Foods. "I lay 99% of the responsibility at the doorstep of the Administration," says President Robinson F. Barker of PPG Industries. "Sure, you can keep surtaxing and surtaxing until we're surtaxed to death," says President A. Clark Daugherty of Rockwell Manufacturing Co., "but it won't help unless federal spending is cut." The difficulty about wielding an ax on the budget, noted Chairman Roger Blough of U.S. Steel Corp. last week, is that "nobody has come forward with a list of priorities that would command a consensus." Blough's somewhat idealistic recommendation: political support for "elected...