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...only a paper dream, when measured against the near chaos that prevails in much of Asia. Still, it is significant that Asian countries no longer look to Communist China as the model for economic development, are willing to submerge at least some old feuds in a common desire for selfhelp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: REGIONAL GROUPINGS: ISLANDS OF HOPE | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

...becomes, the greater the frustration and anger over the remaining obstacles tend to be. We would be expecting something more than human from the Negro were we to demand that he stifle these emotions. The problem, rather, is to channel Negro anger and dissatisfaction into constructive avenues, such as selfhelp. That is what this commission and its federal and state sister agencies are about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 4, 1966 | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

Neither bullets nor ballots will produce the ultimate victory in Viet Nam. What is needed is an effort by the Vietnamese themselves to rebuild their society in towns and villages. Last week Premier Ky paid tribute to a unique example of Vietnamese selfhelp. It took root a year ago, when a dozen youth leaders petitioned him to let them take over an entire province and demonstrate what they could offer in leadership. Ky would not go that far, but to their surprise handed them complete administrative control of Saigon's District 8-a squalid, 3-sq.-mi. slum packed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Boy-State | 9/2/1966 | See Source »

...food-aid policy. It still proposes to keep the world from starving by expanding food shipments abroad and drops the requirement of the expiring law that such aid must come from U.S. surpluses. But the bill would require countries receiving food to build up their own agricultural output through selfhelp. And it quite bluntly advocates that they take birth-control measures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE STRUGGLE TO END HUNGER | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

Sargent Shriver sees his agency as the leader in the assault on poverty. "The programs of the OEO will cost the taxpayers only 1? out of every tax dollar," he says, "but this 1? provides the cutting edge of all our efforts. Because our 1? is directed at selfhelp, self-motivation, education and local community action, all of our programs are designed ultimately to end poverty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poverty: The War Within the War | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

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