Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other reforms, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance traveled to Budapest in January to return the Crown of St. Stephen, a 977-year-old treasure of the Hungarian monarchy that had been in American hands since the end of World War II. The crown is a symbol of Hungarian national pride; its "captivity"in Fort Knox for nearly 30 years had been a constant irritant in U.S.-Hungarian relations, and its return this year was a gesture calculated to hasten the strengthening of those ties. The Carter Administration also has moved to secure for Hungary most-favored-nation status, a lowering...
...meant to encourage. "There's no doubt the Carter Administration has changed American strategy in a very welcome way," says one prominent Polish intellectual. "Before Carter, almost all contacts were government-to-government and always with an eye to Moscow. Now the U.S. is treating us as an important nation in our own right and an increasingly pluralistic one at that. I hope Carter pursues this policy with even more vigor...
...brief time?just 25 years?HEW has assembled an empire that would be the envy of the pharaohs or the ancient Chinese emperors. Only this is a benevolent empire of round-the-clock services that go directly to 115 million Americans and indirectly touch just about everybody in the nation. It is an empire, moreover, of 1,125,000 bureaucrats augmented by computers. Without its electronic marvels, HEW's accomplishments would be unthinkable. While most of the department's programs are administered from its huge Washington headquarters, Social Security data are processed in a building outside Baltimore by the most...
Jordan, who has served as executive director of the National Urban League since 1972, has for years been one of the nation's most vocal proponents of economic revitalization for American cities, as a means of increasing the economic opportunities of blacks across the country. A native of Atlanta, Ga., Jordan worked as an attorney for the Atlanta Office of Economic Opportunity before taking on duties with the United Negro College Fund, and later the leadership of the National Urban League. As one of the leading spokesmen for urban blacks, he has been active in policy advising in Washington...
Wilkin's citation: For almost half a century, he as worked with quiet zeal to realize the constitutional promises of our nation...