Word: self-help
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...both nations, Humphrey reasserted the President's fish-or-cut-bait foreign-policy line. Further economic aid, he made clear, depends on observance of the Tashkent agreement to a cease-fire and a pullback in Kashmir. Also, the two countries must take realistic self-help measures and, in view of the shared threat of Communist China, spare the Administration gratuitous criticism of U.S. foreign policy. Finally, Humphrey intimated that some non-military assistance for South Viet Nam would not be ill-received in Washington, though this was not made a condition of continuing...
...credit course is Gerald Rosenthal's Eonomics 175, "Social Welfare and Public Policy." He wrote a paper proposing a community self-help project for the Negro ghetto as a "more realistic" alternative to Great Society programs...
...court pointed out, the situation is now reversed. While jail is far less harrowing, every U.S. policeman packs a gun and is duty-bound not to be cowed by a suspect's resistance. "Self-help," said the court, "is antisocial in an urbanized society." It just about guarantees "escalation into bloodshed" -and is unnecessary at a time when the rights of the accused are being constantly expanded. As a result: "We declare it to be the law of this state that a private citizen may not use force to resist arrest by one he knows or has good reason...
...order to foil the BRA, John Harrington, President of SHOC, Self-Help Organization Charlestown, called for a defeat of pro-renewal City Council members, and the enactment of a law that would allow a neighborhood to veto an urban renewal project...
...insurrection. After last week's incidents, the government ordered 400 civil guards to track down the guerrillas and alerted an army battalion to move into the area if the Communists were spotted. Belaúnde's long-range hope is to contain the guerrillas until his own self-help housing, health, and road-building plans begin to make an impression on the long-neglected Indians, rendering them less susceptible to Communist promises...