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Shortly before the Alianza para el Progreso was proclaimed in 1961, Thomas C. Mann, the U.S. State Department's ranking expert on Latin America, glumly compared the area to "a pile of sugar being eaten away by a fire hose." Much of the erosion has since been halted. The Alianza has made considerable progress in developing economies, while Castro has been ex posed as a bungling adventurer. The Brazilian revolution ended the drift to Communism under a feckless leftist President; Chile averted the same fate in a head-to-head election in which the Christian Democrats' Eduardo Frei...
...Orleans real estate investor, berated Judaism's contemporary prophets of doom for their hand-wring ing anxiety. The danger of assimilation "persists and grows," he acknowledged, but "it is also profoundly true that Jew ish peoplehood persists and grows. Jew ish life somehow thrives on its own para doxes." Since Judaism is predicated on man's right to be free, said Katz, "I can not concede - no matter what sets of statistics or failures or problems are set before us - that Jewish existence, which has survived and flourished in adversity, is to succumb in freedom...
...Like McConnell's tentative conclusions, Jencks' predictions strongly suggest that a vitalistic view of the operations of the mind soon may no longer be tenable. If the functioning of the mind can be understood in substantial detail, and if, in fact, man is able to construct a kind of para-mind, then endeavours such as sociology and history may find their usefulness greatly decreased...
...fourth anniversary of the Alianza para el Progreso last week, the U.S. could report that its grand design is finally showing some substance. Since 1961, the U.S. has disbursed $3.5 billion in aid and committed $4.2 billion, in return for which Latin Americans are beginning to do the necessary, often difficult, things that will multiply the dollars. Items...
Edgar and Jean Cahn, in their account of how not to wage war on poverty (based on the New Haven experience), carry the "war" analogy to its logical extreme and come up with some solid insights into deficiencies of the "para-military" approach to poverty. Their thesis is that war on poverty ignores a crucial "civilian perspective." The result of this defect is that programs which in theory are designed to increase self-reliance and independence, in fact tend to "enervate potential leadership," and to prevent criticism and retard innovation in favor of maintaining vested interests and the status...