Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Doty hadn't expected the report to be ready until next month at the earliest, the committee's progress during January and February proved better than he had expected. It reached an "oral consensus" about the beginning of February and spent the last two months drafting their recommendations into final form...
...freedom and morality. Under Stalinism, he declared, man is "educated to hypocrisy and dishonesty" by a police state that kills thought. "All this we must change completely." When dogma blocks the free exchange of ideas, he said, it "creates the conditions for a disastrous development" by blocking social progress. But then, "reactionary regimes have always striven to keep their people stupid...
...hemisphere problems in years went on behind closed doors in Washington last week. All 17 U.S. ambassadors and 19 aid-mission officials were summoned from their posts south of the border for three days of shirtsleeve discussions that ranged from economic and political problems of the Alliance for Progress to rising Latin American nationalism. On the third anniversary of the Alliance, diplomats accredited to the Organization of American States gathered to launch the newly coordinated Inter-American Committee of the Alliance and hear Lyndon Johnson deliver his first major Latin American policy address...
That leaves a great deal unsaid about Sorensen's influence on Kennedy. He joined Kennedy as a militant A.D.A. liberal when the junior senator was conservative enough to avoid the censure vote on Sen. McCarthy. Eight years later President Kennedy was proposing the Peace Corps and the Alliance for Progress. Something very basic had changed in Kennedy's thought during those eight years. Certainly Sorensen was in part responsible. Twelve years after graduating from law school, Sorensen is back on a campus again. He smiles when asked what he plans to do. "I guess I'll be interested...
...need not happen, however, if Johnson were to stand up for foreign aid instead of allowing its opponents to monopolize the debate. Johnson's public questioning of the soundness of AID's administrative structure, his amputation of the Alliance for Progress from AID's control, and his demand for less aid to fewer countries are all attempts to buy off the Congressional opposition. The last suggestion is even borrowed directly from the most vociferous of the opposition last year, who spent a good part of the summer trying to agree on the number of countries receiving U. S. foreign...