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Most go-go feature of the week was Johnson's urban message, which went to Congress while he was at his Texas ranch for a Washington's Birthday retreat. The message contained an ambitious program to provide 26 million new homes and apartments for low-and middle-income families in the next decade, more than ten times the number of such units built in the past decade under federal programs. In hopeful theory at least, the plan should eliminate all substandard housing in the nation. If Congress approves, the construction of 6,000,000 of the homes...
...ponder for decades. All the details will probably never be established. For present-day Americans, the knowable facts are of more than academic interest, since the events of those days set off a chain reaction, beginning with the Tonkin Gulf Resolution in Congress, which has sent more than a million U.S. troops to battle in South Viet Nam. The following account is based on the Defense Department's official report-much of which was secret until last week-and an exhaustive Associated Press reconstruction based on interviews with officers and enlisted men aboard the U.S.S. Maddox and Turner...
...force. In less than two years, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, 26, a burly, apothegmatizing King lieutenant who praises the Lord and believes in the might of economics, has wrested work from ghetto businessmen for 3,000 of his flock and boosted South Side Negroes' annual income by $22 million...
...dejection-if not his figure of speech-was understandable. In the past month, three separate cases of "irregularities," resulting in the suspension or resignation of five officials, have plagued the agency. At the same time, a State Department report on AID'S operations catalogued at least $6.5 million worth of waste and inefficiency in 30 countries from Afghanistan to Viet...
...Some 12 million Americans, one-sixth of the national labor force, now work in the public service. In the next seven years, this figure is expected to reach 15 million. Until relatively recent years, the widely held public point of view was that these government employees-whatever their number and whatever their classification-had no right to organize, let alone a right to strike. In 1937, Franklin D. Roosevelt called public strikes "unthinkable and intolerable." United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther said in 1966 that "society cannot tolerate strikes that endanger the very survival of society," and proposed finding...