Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barrio. Soon the whole community joins in, digging, hammering and painting, installing sewers, sidewalks, water systems. ACCION workers scrounge around for bricks, pipe and cement, also hold classes in reading and sewing. On major projects they occasionally get an assist from the Venezuelan government and the Alliance for Progress...
Profits for Progress. At least 70% of ACCION'S current $420,000 budget comes from Venezuelan contributors, and it can count on future support from the "Voluntary Dividend for the Community," a new program whereby Venezuelan corporations agree to kick in 2% to 5% of their profits to help fight poverty (TIME, March 6). Gradually, the Americans are turning over their jobs to Venezuelan volunteers and to slum leaders themselves. Says Blatchford: "That's what we want to do-work ourselves out of jobs." They may not get the chance. Already communities in Brazil, Nicaragua, Bolivia...
...reference to the Storm Spirit was appropriate enough. Even as the party honoring the visiting French ambassador to Laos was in progress, Sihanouk's government was whipping up a propa ganda campaign against the U.S., built around the preceding week's incident along the frontier between Cambodia and South Viet...
Andes to Appalachia. Johnson's words could hardly have been more heartening for his audience. He emphasized his determination "to meet all the commitments" of the Kennedy Administration's ten-year, $20 billion development program for the Alliance. "We will carry forward our Alliance for Progress," the President promised the OAS ambassadors, "in such a way that men in all lands will marvel at the power of freedom to achieve the betterment...
Conceding that the Alliance has had "difficulties and flaws," he spoke with feeling of land and tax reforms, of education and economic progress for "every American, from the Indian of the Andes to the impoverished farmer of Appalachia." Already, said William D. Rogers, deputy coordinator of the program, the Alliance has made "substantial" advances...