Word: national
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While the nation rejoiced with the astronauts, the war in Viet Nam took a grim turn. For two months, a lull had hung over South Viet Nam's battlefields and U.S. diplomats and military men debated its meaning. Many of the diplomats argued that the decline in combat signaled a favorable response from Hanoi to U.S. troop withdrawals and meant that there would soon be progress in the deadlocked Paris peace talks. But the combat commanders contended that the enemy was using the pause only to prepare for a new offensive. Last week the Communists apparently settled the argument...
Having presented his new welfare proposals to the nation on television, Richard Nixon turned last week to the arduous task of selling his innovative program to Congress. It will take some doing. While generally lauding the direction of Nixon's reform efforts, many legislators on both the left and the right have doubts about the details of the proposals. The President delivered his reforms to Congress in three separate messages...
...work, to overhaul fundamentally poverty assistance. For a family of four, the basic federal subsidy would be $1,600, available to able-bodied recipients only if they accept employment or enrollment in job-training classes. The Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) would lose operating authority over the nation's antipoverty projects and would assume the more limited responsibility for research and development of new programs...
...plan would begin by splitting $500 million among the 50 states during the six-month period starting Jan. 1, 1971. By 1975, the money to be divided would grow to an estimated $5 billion. The program would begin by offering the states one-sixth of one percent of the nation's total taxable income, less deductions and exemptions. By 1976, this share would grow to 1 % of the country's total taxable income, the level at which it would remain. Each state's share would be calculated through a formula involving population and the proportional share...
...reality borders on fantasy. Many Americans still find it difficult to fully believe that their nation harbors an evil entity capable of stealing billions while destroying the honor of public officials, the honesty of businessmen and sometimes the lives of ordinary citizens. The evidence that it does these things and more has become all too credible. The image persists of the colorful gambler who speaks quaint Runyonesque, or the romantic loner ? Jay Gatsby, say ? who has his own somehow justifiable morality, or of the paternalistic despot who challenges society by his own peculiar code...