Word: program
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...tempered his approach. While not avoiding large rallies altogether, he is planning to concentrate on smaller, more secure sessions, where he can discuss issues at greater length. Attending the first of these at the Copernicus Senior Citizens Center in Chicago, Kennedy gave a speech touting his national health care program. Silvester Bonnis, 72, a retired factory worker, came up to the podium with his cane to say that if he ever had to go to the hospital, "it would take all that I have saved." Seeing his point made so poignantly, Ted urged, "Pour it on, Silvester...
More important, the new President attacked the ills that took root in Kenya's government during Kenyatta's later years. As part of his "footstep" program to root out corruption, he publicly denounced five M.P.s for illegal practices, launched an investigation of contracts awarded by the Ministry of Works, and started a probe of the Lands Ministry...
...list of demands that gypsy leaders presented to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt last week. It asks, among other things, for an official acknowledgment of the Germans' responsibility for the gypsies' wartime persecution and an end to discrimination in jobs and housing, free access to campsites and a "reeducation program" for prejudiced police. Gypsy activists are also negotiating with the government for a reparations payment of $365 million that could be used to pay for educational and cultural programs benefiting all of Western Europe's gypsies...
...around the earth to one of the most unstable regions in the world." The drive to gain some freedom from OPEC by developing domestic energy sources has never been more pressing. Last week the Senate easily adopted by a vote of 65 to 19 a $20 billion synthetic-fuel program that, among other things, would turn the nation's vast coal deposits into oil and gas. But of all the old and new sources of petroleum now being freshly examined, none is more promising or as controversial as the oil-bearing rock known as shale...
...other man most likely to know the full story also died recently. William Yandell Elliott, director of the Summer School in Kissinger's time and legendary conservative king of the Government Department, tutored Kissinger as an undergraduate and later appointed him director of the seminar-a program they masterminded together but kissinger ran alone. Elliot wanted Kissinger to be the internationalist in Washington that he had always hoped to be and would probably have approved of Kissinger's decision to approach the FBI as the proper way to protect Harvard from potential communist encroachment. David Landau '72 writes in Kissinger...