Word: self-help
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Besides being the most ambitious self-help effort ever undertaken by moneyed Negroes, the fund drive represents a subtle repudiation of such radical activists as Stokely Carmichael and Floyd McKissick, who insist on black-only leadership for the rights movement. Like the N.A.A.C.P. proper, the independent N.A.A.C.P. legal-defense and educational fund has always had an integrated directorship...
Foreign aid has fallen upon bad times. In President Johnson's aid proposals to Congress last month, he called for emphasis on regionalism, multilateralism, and self-help. But the President failed to back up his rhetoric with substantial and concrete suggestions. At best, Johnson presented a politically palatable bill...
...Self-help is the third Johnson proposal to make foreign aid more efficient. This cry--"help instead of money"--has been heard before. Drawing directly from Ambassador to Ethiopia Korry's report on African development, Johnson said that America should provide technical assistance rather than money in fields like agricultural techniques, health services and population control...
...conservative bent." While accepting the humanitarian goals of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, he faults the Administration's approach to helping the poor as "aspirin?it relieves the pain, but it doesn't cure." Both domestic-welfare and foreign-aid policies, he reasons, should be oriented more toward self-help and less toward the dole approach. "If you give a man a handout," he maintains, "you establish a chain of dependence and lack of self-respect that won't be broken easily. If that is the situation of the grandfather, then the son, the grandson, the great-grandson will probably...
...paper helped restore a sense of community to scattered Jews still left in Germany. It sponsored Jewish self-help societies, organized homes for children and the aged. Avoiding general news treated by the rest of the German press, the Weekly concentrated on news of Jews and became a consistent champion of Israel. Above all, the paper has addressed itself to the dilemmas of Jews living in a nation that not so long ago was hell-bent on exterminating them...