Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simply asks that people use objective reasoning in criticizing the defense system, and not criticize the military on the emotional basis of reactionary discontent with the deplorable Viet Nam situation. The Defense Department surely needs much reform. But the reform must be in line with our responsibilities, which, I believe, was the major emphasis of Mr. Nixon's speech...
...approval caught the surtax's opponents by surprise. Some conservatives who oppose high taxation and spending were disarmed by the bill's bipartisan support and by the nation's growing concern about inflation. Liberals, who proposed to support the bill only in exchange for broad reform of the tax structure, were also outmaneuvered. To minimize their resistance, the committee added a provision reducing or eliminating the federal taxes of 13 million low-income people-a feature the liberals could hardly oppose. To ease the reformers' consciences further, Mills pledged a major tax-revision program by year...
...five-year plan is dependent in part on foreign aid, which totals $500 million this year, $208 million of that from the U.S. A drop in assistance could cripple the plan. So could a bad harvest. The bureaucracy remains often corrupt, inefficient and underemployed, and civil service reform is a long way off. The nation's Chinese minority (about 3,000,000 out of a total population of more than 112 million) is a problem. They control an estimated 75% of Indonesian commerce, which provokes resentment. Moreover many of the Communists and their sympathizers who backed Sukarno were ethnic...
...lost any firm sense of direction, if it ever had one. The Paris peace talks have clouded one of its central issues, the Viet Nam war. Blacks have pre-empted the fight against racism, and now often reject any association with white militant students. Universities are struggling to reform their structures and procedures-partly, of course, in response to S.D.S. demands and disruptive activities...
Both men were obviously waving red flags at Congress, which in economic matters often has a low level of sophistication and which has been delaying consideration of the tax extension. The main trouble lies in the House, where many Democrats demand broad-scale and much-needed tax reform as their price for supporting the surcharge. Hoping to avoid a rapidly developing impasse, President Nixon called House leaders of both parties to the White House. Over coffee, they agreed to make the extension bill more attractive by adding a Nixon proposal to drop 2,000,000 poverty-level families from...