Word: quota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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High time-since the now-standing immigration law is an abomination, depending as it does on "a national origins" quota system created in 1924. It was designed to reflect the U.S. population makeup as of 1920 and heavily favored North European nations, while offering only the stingiest quotas to other parts of the world. Despite all the hysterical criticism that comes its way, the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 actually liberalized the quota system, particularly for Orientals...
...Buildup. In stepping up the U.S. commitment, Johnson announced that U.S. troops in Viet Nam will be increased "almost immediately" by some 50,000, bringing the total to 125,000; that the monthly draft quota would be doubled, from the present 17,000 to about 35,000, but the President thought that there was no present reason for ordering Reserve units into service...
Asian Acceptance. Realizing that European migration alone can never adequately populate the land, many leading Australians now advocate selective Asian immigration. A Gallup poll reported recently that 73% of the population (v. 44% in 1958) would approve at least a small annual quota of skilled Asians. Apart from the economic strain, the government is all too aware of the strategic perils of underpopulation. With 3,000 fighting men in Malaysia (see story above) and a battalion in Viet Nam, half of Australia's combat-ready forces are already tied down in the widening struggle for Southeast Asia...
Sharpening Competition. While Britain handicaps its steel industry by excluding U.S. coal and Germany admits only a small quota, Italy has become one of Europe's lowest-price steelmakers (despite its lack of native iron or coal) by relying on coastal plants, American coal and ore from India, Liberia, Canada, Venezuela and Brazil. Aided by this reliance, Italian steel output has shot up 41% in seven years. A similar formula (Australian ore, coal from the U.S.) has made Japan's wholly seaside steel industry the world's No. 3 producer and a formidably competitive exporter from Detroit...
...called themselves revolutionaries, he (and his wife) had alone experienced revolution. Yet he found himself in the extraordinary position of defending the United States, insisting on the complexities of Vietnam, and praising the American right of free speech. In another context he might have spoken differently, but the quota of radicalism was well filled that night. Dedijer as an intellectual humanist, and even more, as a European, tried to redress the balance...