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...years ago, such a proviso might have raised cries of a Western plot against the growth of colored races. Hunger's pressures have helped to calm that fallacious fear. Even in the most unlikely region, Roman Catholic South America, resistance to birth control has dwindled. "Religion is getting out of the way;" says University of Chicago Economist Theodore W. Schultz...
While the appropriation cut will seriously endanger any such plan, there is yet another damaging feature of the subcommittee's action--the proviso that prevents rent supplement funds from going to communities lacking community development projects. This proviso, in effect, will make the envisioned suburban dispersion impossible or ineffective. Suburban communities could decide against long-range planning altogether or determine locations of projects which would be rent-subsidized, thus creating new ghettos...
Optimism & Caution. Neither Fairbank nor Columbia Political Scientist A. Doak Barnett would accept the Fulbright line that the war in Viet Nam would lead to full-scale hostilities with China, with the proviso-which the Administration has repeatedly endorsed-that the U.S. does not intend to destroy what the Chinese consider a buffer regime in North Viet Nam. Both, however, cautioned against bombing Hanoi or Haiphong. Indeed, Administration experts whose policies embody the same reservations advanced by Fairbank and Barnett, expressed mystification last week at Fulbright's recent assertion that "certain China experts in our Government think the Chinese...
...Proviso. The President threw down his spending plans like a gauntlet before those who have attacked his Great Society programs. "I have not come here tonight to ask for pleasant luxuries and for idle pleasures," said Johnson. "I have come here to recommend that you bring the most urgent decencies of life to all your fellow Americans." Then he put forth his faith and his warning for the coming session: "I believe that we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Viet Nam. But if there are some who do not believe this, then, in the name...
Despite his optimism in predicting a healthy financial condition for the Federal Government, Johnson added a proviso: "I will not hesitate to return to the Congress for additional appropriations or additional revenues if they are needed." They may be needed if the peace offensive fails and the war worsens in Viet Nam-and the President pulled no punches in detailing the hard realities of that "brutal and bitter conflict...