Word: interes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Second, bilateral aid has not proven to be the most effective form of assistance in all cases. We must increasingly channel our development through multilateral institutions, such as the Inter-American Development Bank, the Central American Bank, and the World Bank. We should also urge that the problems of economic growth in the hemisphere be reviewed more systematically by the Inter-American Committee of the Alliance for Progress...
...this year are freshmen, and, for the first term, at least, the faculty is offering them 11 so-called core courses. There are also a small number of business classes, and various advanced courses of a more specialized nature for the transfer students. The core courses are inter-disciplinary, within the three areas of humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences...
Next month's Olympic games are the first to be held in a Spanish-speaking country, the first in Latin America, and the first in a developing nation. They are also Mexico's first big opportunity to put its stable prosperity on inter national display. A two-month-old strike by Mexico's normally docile university students is threatening to spoil that triumph. Last week President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz ordered the army to end the strike by taking over the National University campus on the outskirts of Mexico City...
...Follette's 1924 Progressive Party presidential candidacy, a scholarly and sympathetic history of Mexico, an angry expose of private utility companies' propaganda (The Public Pays) that began a long career of defending public power programs. Later, when F.D.R. came to power, Gruening was appointed to the 1933 Inter-American Conference at Montevideo and helped hammer out the New Deal's Good Neighbor policy. The following year, Roosevelt appointed him to head the Interior Department's new Division of Territories and Island Possessions, a post he held until 1939, when the President named him territorial governor...
Papousek feels sure of the Czechs' future goals. His people want to profit from the inter-action between socialism and democracy, combining the advantages of both. "And we want more freedom than we have had up to now. In fact, we want more freedom than Americans have...