Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Poetry is in a positive sense now up and doing. Your encomium to torment and haunting inadequacy does not help...
...Russians, whose "scandalous capitulation," as Cuba's radio put it, cost them incalculable prestige among the Arabs, sought to repair the damage by severing diplomatic ties with Israel and by warning, after a Moscow meeting among the leaders of seven Communist states, that they would help the Arabs "administer a resolute rebuff" to the Israelis unless they relinquished captured territory. But the defeated Arabs are not likely to forgive very soon the Russians for failing to bail them out. "What has come over you, friend?" asked the Baghdad daily Sawt al-'Arab. "You made us promises...
...sequel could be a dangerous new arms race in the Middle East, or else a windfall of economic aid for the area. To help develop "cooperative programs for the economic and social development of all the countries of the region," and to keep an eye on the strategic situation in the Mideast, Johnson set up a special subcommittee of the National Security Council, patterned after the ExCom machinery installed by John F. Kennedy during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Summoned back from his post at the Ford Foundation to serve as the group's executive secretary was McGeorge Bundy...
...Raiser Jack Kravatz: "Our donations are from Jew and non-Jew alike. We've had inquiries from church groups and from people walking in off the street to hand us a check. They have all called themselves friends of Israel who want to know how they can best help...
...which law school professors could help, he suggested, is in the drafting of national "model codes." Several such codes, one on land use and another on handling of suspects before trials, for example, are now being drafted at various law schools under the sponsorship of the American Law Institute...