Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kumaraswami Kamaraj Nadar, 63, barrel-chested boss of Madras, who as president of the Congress Party dreamed up the consensus scheme as a means of installing Shastri after Nehru's death. But Kamaraj speaks only Tamil, and even if Shastri were to vanish, would be content to remain only a kingmaker and cash collector for the party. Last week Kamaraj was touring his home state, preceded by an elephant with bells on its toes, to celebrate his birthday. In lieu of gifts he collected $350,000 for the party coffers...
...perhaps his strongest move since assuming power, Shastri ordered a cut back in the grandiose industrial scheme laid out by Nehru, snatched away the styluses from New Delhi's army of blue printing planners, and cranked up a crash program of agricultural aid. Though industrial projects already un der way ($5 billion worth of them) will be allowed to reach completion, the heavier effort for the next few years will go into quick-yielding small projects for farmers - wells, irrigation and roads. This year's harvest gives him a breather: 87,200,000 tons of grain have been...
...Congressmen have called for splitting off HEW's education office into a separate Cabinet-level Department of Education. Adding to the pressure, more burdens-and billions-are being piled on HEW as a result of Great Society programs, not the least of which is the $6.5 billion medicare scheme. Says Gardner: "I don't think even informed Americans have stopped to think what their representatives have made of this department. It has been handed an absolutely staggering set of assignments...
...hospitals, housing and roads-thus bravely inviting a rise in unemployment in hopes of overcoming labor shortages in key export industries, such as shipbuilding. To dampen domestic demand and bring down export prices, the government cut back hard on lending for local public works, also shelved its minimum-wage scheme, postponed promised reductions in socialized-medicine charges and in interest rates for home mortgages, and further tightened consumer credit...
Just a Platform? There were no other visible, substantive reasons for Moscow's change of heart about another round of talks. But the Geneva delegates will have plenty of unfinished disarmament business to bring up again from previous sessions. There is the "bomber bonfire" scheme to scrap part (proposed by the U.S.) or all (as Russia urged) of their nuclear bomber fleets; the proposal to reduce the mounting stockpiles of fissionable material on both sides; and an extension of the test ban treaty to underground blasts, which has been stymied over whether three or seven on-site inspections...