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With that, "Balaguer launched into the first public details of his program to rebuild the tired, war-shattered nation. "The first step in this direction," he said, "must consist of an austerity policy which will act not as a bomb, but as a scalpel upon the ulcers that must be cut out in cold blood." The ulcers - inflation, corruption, political favoritism and inefficiency - would not disappear easily, Balaguer warned, and his surgery would be "painful...
...sense, a revival meeting. Gathered in quaint old Webster Hall, a onetime Greenwich Village ball room, were 1,000 delegates and ob servers attending the first open con gress held by the U.S. Communist Party in seven years. The Reds' aim during the five-day conference was to rebuild their fading cause by publicly exploiting the country's antiwar, civil rights and allied New Left movements...
...will eventually result in freer movement and new alignments, a Europe that despite proliferating nationalism could, for the first time since 1939, become one continent again. No one was ready to predict when the new Europe will come. Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle, 75, arriving in Moscow to rebuild the "proud tower" of European nationalism from the Atlantic to the Urals, was doing what he could to quicken the pace...
...peasant a more equitable, hopeful life is also beginning to take effect. This "other war" has been ardently espoused by the President in the past. Yet most Americans have been left surprisingly uninformed of its successes: the dozens of 59-man teams now fanning out into the countryside to rebuild it; the new schools and clinics that have sprouted in the Delta; the hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese treated by U.S. military medical teams; and the Allies' slow but steady attempts to create a political infrastructure in the villages and provinces. Moreover, for all the gloomy headlines...
...model for the beautification and preservation efforts of other American cities. "Here is a great example of what can be done," she said. "It says to every city-look around and find the individual charm, the bounty of nature, the heritage of the past with which to rebuild...