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Sympathetic though it may be to Hassan, the U.S. is hesitant to grant him its all-out support. Washington readily agreed to send Morocco an extra 500,000 tons of wheat, and promised Hassan $15 million in military aid to protect his borders. But it is not about to supplant French aid to Hassan's development plans, if for no other reason than the realization that the U.S. can never replace France as Morocco's Western mentor...
Indeed, Reagan's most deeply held conviction goes to the very heart of modern moderate Republicanism. He believes-echoing Dick Nixon-that the ro!e of Government in the nation's life should be to invigorate and assist individual effort, not, as he fears, to supplant...
...Every Reasonable Program." Amherst is a leader in redesigning curriculum; next September it will drop all core courses required since 1947 and supplant them with only three one-semester courses in natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, retaining a language and physical education. The Yale faculty voted last month to abandon its system of requiring a certain distribution of courses in various fields; next year's college bulletin will say that "every reasonable program" proposed by students "will be approved." Smith will also loosen its distribution rules...
...Unprecedented Demands." The President also proposed to return to cultivation as many of the 60 million idled acres on U.S. farms as may be needed to meet the world's need for food-"but not to produce unwanted surpluses and not to supplant the efforts of other countries to develop their own agricultural economies." In addition, to meet "unprecedented demands arising out of drought and the war in Asia," Johnson announced a 10% increase in rice acreage in 1966, and said that corn-belt farmers would be encouraged to switch some feed-grain acreage to soybeans, a high-protein...
Despite the lack of any major policy agreements, both French and German diplomats were cheered by the relaxed tone of the meetings. Ministers discussed down-to-earth topics such as the joint construction of a military land vehicle to supplant the Jeep and ways to standardize tax and social security systems. Said one German official: "The Franco-German couple has given up the bedroom and now meets in the kitchen...