Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration last week was groping for a saving gambit. At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara announced that the U.S. would throw an electronic barrier across the 17th parallel to stem infiltration from the North (see following story), which could result in reduced bombing of the North and thus help to placate Washington critics of the war. At the United Nations, Ambassador Arthur Goldberg was trying to line up support for a new bid to the Security Council to undertake a settlement of the war. The U.N., said Secretary of State Dean Rusk, "has a responsibility under its Charter...
Financial Coup. On the West Bank, in the Gaza Strip and even on the Golan Heights, educators are preparing for September school reopening-except in the Sinai capital of El Arish, where youngsters will be let off until Oct. 1 to help with the date harvest...
...Quebec. It would not take much to make any increase considerable, since the most visible signs of French aid so far have been an exchange of some 60 schoolteachers and a technical assist in building Montreal's rubber-tired subway. What France desires, said De Gaulle, is "to help the French of Canada to maintain and develop their personality." That they need such help, said French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville last week, is beyond question. Until De Gaulle's visit to Quebec, purred Couve, French Canada "was enclosed in its bigotry and provincialism...
...already receiving fringe benefits of a technology that may someday support thousands of new desert towns. In addition to moistening the greenhouse soil, the 6,000-gal. daily output of pure water is given to the local hospital and school and is bottled and sold as "Agua Solar" to help defray the plant's operating expenses. And the cucumbers, squash, tomatoes and other vegetables produced in the greenhouses are given away free to local residents...
...Rheinhardt is an alcoholic disk jockey who relies on soup kitchens for survival; his adoring girl friend has a look that makes cops mistake her for a prostitute; Rainey is a physically repellent welfare worker who gets chased off the streets by the very people he is trying to help. All three become ruinously involved with a right-wing tycoon who controls several top city officials and now wants to lead a cryptofascist "moral" crusade. Stone's theme is the inextricable grip of the underworld on its inhabitants; he draws a sure-handed diagram of brutal power...