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...apprehensions of the more cautious Senators were at least partly borne out. While last month's Moratorium activities were violence-free, a group of young extremists in Washington last week twice marred the peace kept by the overwhelming majority of demonstrators. Breaking off from the main force, an ad hoc collection of Crazies, Yippies, Mad Dogs, Weathermen and freelance fanatics numbering more than 1,000 banded together as the Revolutionary Contingent for the Vietnamese People. On Friday night, as nonviolent activities continued elsewhere in Washington, they tried to march on the South Vietnamese embassy. One chant along...
Miller said he plans to give personal attention to the problem of tuition assistance for minority groups. The Summer Health Careers Program. fomerly administered by an ad hoc committee. will be another of his main concerns...
...that the primary objective of poor countries is and should be the maximization of per capita income. This economic index has meaning only in the context of a market economy and implies an acceptance of the status quo income distribution. Egalitarian goals are introduced at best on an ad hoc basis, and the human costs of rapid economic growth-the fracture of community, for example-are seldom considered. A companion objective typically assumed for poor countries, that of "political development." aims at little more than convergence with western political system. Thus, the conventional confines of the fields of study define...
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...Dane G. Prugh of the University of Colorado, chairman of the ad hoc Steering Committee on HEW Clearance, said his group was trying to convince the Department to relax its "unwarranted practice of security investigations for non-sensitive positions...