Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indeed, the time for divorce reform is now! Your fact-loaded dissertation, however, neglects the most significant fact regarding divorce: throughout the country at least 90% of divorce cases are uncontested, and ordinarily the courts learn only what plaintiffs care to tell them. It is sheer nonsense for statutory law to concentrate on marital fault rather than a problem-solving approach while in real life, divorces by consent are being negotiated in law offices. Tragically, the contested cases usually involve greedy or spiteful spouses rather than a motivation to save the marriage...
...times we lose patience with your advisers." It is a frankness the U.S. appreciates and needs in Viet Nam politics-not least because it is a guarantee of honesty. Nonetheless, said Ky, "we are making progress," and proceeded to tick it off in terms of classrooms built, land reform, medical centers, housing starts. "When you speak of building hospitals and schools and rural electrification programs," responded John son, "you are speaking our language...
...muscle on the skeleton of public rhetoric in Honolulu. Sitting in the overstuffed chairs of Johnson's living room in the Hotel Royal Hawaiian, the President urged acceptance by the Vietnamese of a U.S. blueprint for curbing the nation's runaway inflation-and got it. He urged reform in tax administration, citing as an example Argentina, which had increased its income by a third through collection reforms alone. "That is what we want to do," said Ky: develop new cadres of honest young men who would collect taxes properly...
...Dispatch, however, was less worried about the physical dangers of Johnson's trip than it was angry at its "showy and confusing" detraction from "the primary business at hand, which is to gain agreement on terms for a peace conference." Others might be impressed by talk of social reform in Viet Nam; not the PD, which found the idea "utterly fantastic." It would require conquering the Viet Cong, and that would take "a military effort of many long years-the establishment of an armed American occupation...
Eight hundred AID workers are already in Vietnam helping Vietnamese officials reduce illiteracy, aid in agrarian reform, and institute modern medical techniques. The agency expects its $300 million appropriation to double this year, enabling it to enlarge its staff in South Vietnam to more than a thousand. So far all AID workers have been deferred by their draft boards...