Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Practically, there is much less ambiguity. The discernible results of your (and others') efforts to influence policy from within the system are virtually zero -- more a holding operation than anything else, and hardly a sweeping tide of reform. The Nation of August 19, referring to American support of Franco's Spain, could very easily be pointing at China scholars bent on "subverting" the government...
Progress Cost Money. Belaúnde poured money into education until, by this year, fully 25% of Peru's budget was being spent on schooling-probably the highest proportion for any country on the continent. He attempted agrarian reform and drew some 2,000,000 Peruvians, largely Indians, into Cooperación Popular projects for village improvement. Through it all, he traveled the country tirelessly...
Perhaps the most fundamental issue dividing Humphrey and Nixon is whether Washington should mastermind or merely encourage social reform. Humphrey is convinced that the government must spend vast amounts of money to better the lot of Negroes, clean up the slums, improve health, transportation and education. Last month he came out for a 50% increase in social security pensions over the next four years, a boost that would ultimately cost $12 billion a year. Since all that money must come from somewhere, Humphrey is considerably less emphatic than Nixon in asserting that this year's 10% income surtax should...
...REFORM. Nixon pledges to keep the controversial 27½% oil-depletion allowance, which Humphrey says should be reexamined. Humphrey favors closing loopholes in income, estate and gift taxes. He has urged a "minimum income tax" for the wealthy, no matter how many tax shelters they enjoy...
...reason that the Ripon Society can stay comfortably within the GOP no matter how conservative the party may become. The Ripon Society can be "policy-oriented" because it represents almost no one: its members are, above all else, disinterested. There are no strong lobbies within the GOP for draft reform, or public housing, or aid to black businesses, or pro-labor legislation, simply because the groups which seek these kinds of programs--the young, the poor, the blacks--do so within the Democratic party. Therefore the motivations of Republicans who pursue these liberal programs are somewhat more amorphous than those...