Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gate Park, split down the middle by the fragrant eucalyptus trees of "The Panhandle." Tourist buses have already made The Haight-Ashbury (its residents insist on the definite article) a regular stop. Down the center of Psychedelphia runs Haight Street (which hippies hope to have renamed "Love Street"); the region itself-once the residence of such formidable families as the silver-mining Floods and the couture-vending Magnins-is studded with steamboat-Gothic mansions and psychedelic gathering places like the "I and Thou" coffee shop and the "Print Mint." Its inhabitants wear everything from Elizabethan motley to Judean beards. They...
...become a pinup among the Viet Cong, who name squads after him and hold periods of silent meditation to gain strength from his example. The Viet Cong have awarded him a posthumous decoration for "indomitable loyalty resoluteness and sublime bravery," and declared that he "has shaken an entire region of the country and terrorized the enemies." Earlier this year, his deeds were celebrated at a gathering in Hanoi of an organization called, in the best Communist fashion, "The Anti-U.S. National Salvation Heroes and Emulation Combatants Congress...
...main flaw in this heroic story is that Nguyen Van Be is alive and in a South Vietnamese jail. When he was captured ten months ago, he was taken to a jail in the delta town of My Tho (there were no prisoner-of-war camps in the region at the time). Recently, an alert South Vietnamese policeman noticed the strong resemblance between the jumbo photos of Be in the Hanoi press and a rather withdrawn Viet Cong prisoner in a corner cell. Astounded to hear of his courageous exploits, Be soon saw the wisdom of his interrogators' assurance...
...Although regionalism was one of the President's key concepts, his treatment of group grants was superficial. Johnson merely said that America should promote "regional economic development to the maximum extent consistent with the economic and political realities of each region." His practical suggestions were limited to encouraging cooperation in Africa...
Johnson might have pointed out the specific advantages of regionalism--economies of scale and coordination of sector growth--in providing underdeveloped countries with transportation, communications, and other requirements for economic take-off. The President should also have realized that practical regionalism involves considerable political sacrifices to development criteria on the part of both Congress and recipient countries. Congress might have to help a somewhat unfriendly country if it were located in the middle of an optimum region for economic growth. And once regions were established, legislators could not halt aid to a specific country without hurting growth in several other...