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Hitting Home. The good will that permeated the conference was all the more unusual because Johnson came south with surprisingly little in his pockets to give the Latin Americans. Unlike the original Alliance for Progress, with its main stress on U.S. aid combined with land and tax reforms in Latin America, Johnson's new program rested chiefly on increased trade and Latin American selfhelp. "I represent a nation committed by history, by national interest and by simple friendship to the cause of progress in Latin America," Johnson told his fellow Presidents. "But the assistance of my nation will only...
...significant statement about the use of L.S.D. was made by Freedman and Powelson in the Nation on January 31, 1966: "L.S.D. enthusiasts talk of religious conversions, the awakening of artistic creativity, the reconciliation of opposites. The main change to be observed in such individuals, however, is that they have stopped doing anything...
...proclaimed their purpose: "Sweep the great renegade of the working class onto the garbage heap!" and "Sweep the Khrushchev of China into the dustbin of history!" The man so described by these sanitation-minded youngsters, who also referred to him as "a paper tiger," the "big shot" and the "main root of revisionism," was Red China's President Liu Shao-chi, the chief foe of Chairman Mao Tse-tung and his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The renewed attacks on Liu showed that Mao and his followers have not yet succeeded in winning the day; they also signaled...
Indeed, while both the ministry and the company bore their share of criticism, Britain's defense industry contracts seemed to be the main target of the debate. Critics in the press and Parliament alike were quick to remember that the same thing happened only three years ago, when Ferranti, Ltd., repaid $12 million after acknowledging an 82% profit manufacturing Bloodhound missiles. Since then, there has been no significant change in the basis for contracting. The government still has no legal redress for excess profits...
...Confrontation politics" is the essence of the new student movement--confrontation with the power structure on main street, or the campus, in Washington. This is the particular form that political action has taken. Civil Rights tactics are the great source of inspiration. The tactic is to pick an issue and confront the power structure with it as dramatically as possible. There are a series of acts and events, with a certain style to them and moving in the same general direction...