Word: program
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brings a formidable barrage of charges against Mrs. Howell. In documents sent to OEO headquarters in Washington, he claims that her election as MKRADC director violated regulations because her brother-in-law, who has since resigned, was a member of the board. The Governor also charges that she kept program funds in a family-owned bank and makes support of her family and party an implicit condition for MKRADC assistance. Nunn denies he wants to replace Mrs. Howell with a Republican. "I don't care who they get to run the program," he says, "as long...
...Howell has responded to Nunn's charges by firing off a few of her own. She claims that Nunn, the state's first Republican Governor in 20 years, is jealous of her program's success and trying to improve his party's fortunes at her expense. Her riposte does little to blunt the thrust of Nunn's original accusation, for her family's seignorial attitude toward the people in its domain is evidence enough of its political power. "These are my folks around here," says Mrs. Howell. "They need help." The people of Breathitt...
...Howell's victory at the hearing has set back Nunn's campaign to get her out of the poverty program. It has embarrassed Breathitt County's Congressman, Carl D. Perkins, who, as chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, is responsible for all poverty legislation. Pushing for a two-year extension of the OEO authorization act, Perkins fears loss of badly needed Republican support if Nunn's veto is overridden. At the same time, he finds it politically necessary to back Mrs. Howell, whose support is an important ingredient to his own reelection...
...brewery, a few railway-repair shops and an assortment of small machine and textile producers. Ho's major asset was coal, and its continuing abundance has provided North Viet Nam with badly needed foreign exchange. Clearly, intensive efforts were needed in the agricultural sector. Ho's first major program, accordingly, was agrarian reform, and his first mass target was the "exploiting landlords." There were, in fact, few landlords of any size. Nevertheless, the order rumbled down from Hanoi: find the exploiters and execute them. Anywhere from 50,000 to 200,000 Vietnamese were executed?mostly village leaders who were replaced...
...universities of Wisconsin, Indiana and Minnesota, for example, will all begin black-studies programs for the first time this fall. The University of Iowa will have a new "action-studies program," whereby students can suggest curriculum changes. Northwestern University is including students in a new community council, with faculty and administrators to advise the president on all matters of university policy, and is also turning questions of discipline over to a student board empowered to conduct hearings and appeals on everything short of "major disasters." Cornell University mailed questionnaires to students, faculty and alumni seeking their nominations for a successor...