Word: reliefer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Both sides were ready .for a strike, if it came. United Steelworker locals dusted off strike signs, prepared rosters of pickets, set aside emergency relief funds; in case there was an unexpectedly long walkout, the parent union could dip into a $20 million surplus. Steelmen halted deliveries of coal, limestone and iron ore as of this week, began clearing their yards of freight cars to avoid paying demurrage charges, sent orders out to start cooling off the giant open-hearth furnaces...
Food and shelter, of course, are not enough. "Above all," says Colonel Sam Wilson, 41, the onetime Merrill's Marauders officer who is on loan from the Army to head the USOM refugee relief program, "the refugees must be kept busy." They elect their own councils to run the camps. Handicraft programs have begun in some places. If land is available, they are encouraged to plant short-term crops. The government is considering training some of them as social welfare workers. Some may end up as teachers to provide elementary education to other refugees' children...
...than about real estate," says one American diplomat. "The side that has the loyalty of the people ought to win it. This is a good opportunity to add a few thousand friends to our side." The U.S. has already allocated $1,000,000 to the refugee camps in stopgap relief, is now considering a major aid program. Most of the work, however, must be done by the Saigon government. "It's no use if we do it," says a USOM officer. "The Vietnamese have to help their own people...
...place where Sukarno's speech (see above) was received with relief was in Malaysia. For the past two years, the Indonesian President has staged a "confrontation" that sought to bring down the federation by economic blockade and guerrilla infiltration. When Singapore seceded from Malaysia early this month (TIME, Aug. 20), Sukarno could have read it as an argument for the success of his hostile policy...
...reaction to Goldberg's graceful retreat was a worldwide sigh of relief. Whatever the validity of the U.S. position, almost no other nation was willing to sacrifice the operation of the U.N. to a feud between the world's constantly feuding big powers. The change in U.S. policy means that any further U.N. peace-keeping operations will depend on either voluntary contributions or the U.N. budget. But most of them have been financed by these methods anyway−Korea and Cyprus by donations, Kashmir and Palestine by the U.N. treasury. The Russians, who, according to U.S. figures...