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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...site system the Administration has proposed, Laird estimates the price at $10.8 billion. Officials point out that annual review of the need for the program could cut the project off long before that much is spent. ABM critics argue, however, that the final cost will turn out to be much higher. They fear that Safeguard may be only the first segment of a greatly expanded "thick" deployment. Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri, a former Secretary of the Air Force, has put the cost of such a system as high as $400 billion, although even many of Safeguard's detractors...
...Thing. The present leaders, many of them middle-aged or older, believe that they can retain the group's established ways and still keep it vital and strong. They feel no need to apologize. WE'RE DOIN' OUR THING, said the orange-and-black buttons worn by many of the 2,000 delegates. To A.M.E. Zion Bishop Stephen Spottswood, 72, N.A.A.C.P. board chairman, "our thing" meant the full sweep of Negro-American progress in this century. "What has been achieved, we have achieved it," he declared. "What remains to be done, we shall...
...Apache warriors, have become walls of a prison. There are only three ways out: by helicopter (at $120 per hour), on foot or by horseback. The eight-mile pack trip to the lip of the can yon takes three hours, but this is just the first leg. Havasupai in need of sup plies must travel 120 miles to Kingman, Ariz. From there merchants will ship goods back to the canyon at a 40% to 60% premium...
...major question of whether Thieu's government can muster the political will and managerial skill to succeed in the task. Land reform has a long and unfortunate history in South Viet Nam. For years, U.S. and other foreign advisers impressed on a succession of Saigon rulers the need to end the inequitable system by which peasants are forced to turn over 25% to 50% of their harvests as rent to absentee landlords. If that advice had been heeded earlier, former U.S. Ambassador to India Chester Bowles recently mused, "it is unlikely that American troops would now be involved...
...late evening, reducing the Bass's backyard to dust and littering it with Polaroid film waste. Mrs. Bass, though, rejoices that the vision has brought her 78-year-old husband back to churchgoing. She is undisturbed by the variety of reported visions ("Everyone's seeing what they need") and by the relic hunters who tore her fig tree apart for souvenirs and crushed what was left of it. ("Maybe the Lord intended for them to take it home...