Word: self-help
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...sensitizing tour," and organized it partly to convince the national press that he has moved the league into a position of greater militancy and cooperation with grass-roots black movements. Far more important, he wanted to expose this group to the physical setting, the chaotic swirl of self-help activity and the continuing problems of the nation's depressed areas. The result was a bewildering, moving, and highly educational experience...
...these and similar quarters have been built with a combination of funds provided by localities, the Rosenberg Foundation and the Economic Opportunity Act. Kingsberry Homes, a division of Idaho-based Boise Cascade Corp., sells $4,750 prefab packages to Alabama and Louisiana farm laborers under a little-known self-help loan program of the Farmers Home Administration. Kingsberry's customers pay only $100 down, save money by erecting the homes themselves, and have 33 years to repay the 4% loans. Most of them formerly occupied plantation shacks that lacked even such basic amenities as running water...
Future policies will be based on three principles: self-help, multi-lateral and regional responsibility and selective U. S. assistance. The emphasis must be on preventing situations from arising that necessitate unilateral involvements...
...self-help principle should apply to both national security and economic and social development...
Third, the Alliance for Progress is seen by many Latin Americans as solely a United States venture. We must make it increasingly a Latin American venture, by encouraging self-help and self-management, with priorities determined by the nation we are attempting to aid rather than by the United States...