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...like 'Those plots start to set a very bad precedent, a very serious one, that could become a boomerang against the authors of those actions.' But I did not mean to threaten by that. I did not mean by that that we were going to take measures ?similar measures???like a retaliation...
...Tens of billions of dollars are spent every year by the Federal Government, states and cities to eliminate drastic poverty. In addition, special hiring drives, private job-training programs, university scholarships and affirmative-action programs are aimed at aiding the motivated poor. Yet by most of society's measures???job prospects, housing, education, physical security?the underclass is hardly better off, and in some cases worse off, than before the War on Poverty...
Corn borers and rootworms are attacking crops in the Midwest corn belt at a prodigious rate, and the boll weevil?between crop loss and control measures???annually costs U.S. farmers...
Between the Roy* and the Viceroy there is this difference: The Earl of Willingdon on his throne at Delhi can initiate action, decree the most drastic measures???in short, can rule. Last week the return to India of Mahatma Gandhi gave the Viceroy a chance to seem every inch a king. When Mr. Gandhi begged audience by telegram to discuss Lord Willingdon's recent ordinance suppressing free speech, freedom of assembly and virtually all civil rights in Bengal (TIME, Dec. 14), he received from the Viceregal court the telegraphic answer...
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