Word: self-help
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...effort by the people of Watts to keep their own community peaceful, a self-help project that even the nationalists could not demean, although it came from a coalition group. Lou Gothard, an active member of TALO, thinks this kind of unity is a necessity for community action. Although he has nationalist sympathies, he feels that nationalist have often hampered effective action by taking a hard, doctrinaire line that prevents coalition. "The function of nationalism is to point out the fallacies of the civil rights movement," Gothard said, implying that before equality can be achieved, Negroes must be able...
...considers "The Struggle to End Hunger" [Aug. 12] as important a problem as any in our time, I am impressed by the balance and comprehensiveness of your fine Essay. I agree that only by combining expanded U.S. output with agricultural self-help in developing lands can we hope to avert world famine...
...Yankee horse-trading skill and sheer inventiveness. In a scant 14 months, he unplugged the logistical bottleneck that had plagued the development of the Chu Lai enclave, and in the process set up his outfit as the most efficient unit in the area. "Over here it's a self-help program," says Feddersen, "where you're the self doing the helping...
...shape. In the face of persistent Congressional assaults on the program, Bell, a Harvard-trained economist who was summoned to Washington in 1961 as President Kennedy's first budget director, helped trim the fat by rejecting the notion of aid as "a worldwide welfare program" and insisting on "self-help...
...Fugs have unquestionably extended the trend to extremes, not everyone has gone to pot. Kicks, a song written by the husband-and-wife team of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, warns so effectively about the evils of drugs that the composers were given an award by Synanon, the self-help group for narcotics addicts...