Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Curtis Le-May once proposed. "There is no doubt that air power could destroy North Viet Nam if it were in our interests," said Brown. "Our Government does not believe that it would be." The U.S. has purposely avoided attacking certain targets because they are too close to urban residential areas, would cause suffering among the civilian population or would not significantly affect the enemy's short-term ability to continue fighting. Brown warned that "all of these targets are hostages to U.S. air power" and that the U.S. could easily increase that power to a much higher...
...mortgageloans, thus enabling conventional lenders to stretch their funds further. Last week N.A.H.B. urged the Government to expand the Federal National Mortgage Association, now confined by law to the purchase of FHA and VA loans, into a facility dealing with non-Government mortgages as well. Housing & Urban Development Secretary Robert C. Weaver went so far as to suggest that the whole cumbersome system of home buying and financing needs a radical overhaul "to get us out of this dilemma and prevent recurrences...
Ribicoff said yesterday that Moynihan's plan was one of "the most significant ideas" to come before his Senate sub-committee on government operations, which is investigating urban affairs and he instructed his staff to incorporate it into legislation...
Moynihan, who is director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies, testified before the Ribicoff committee Monday. He said that there was an increasing lack of confidence in the government's efforts to deal with urban problems...
Moynihan feels that an Office of Legislative Evaluation would aid in restoring public confidence in the government's attempts to deal with poverty and urban problems. Essentially, the Office would examine the value and social effects of governmental programs much in the same manner that the General Accounting Office audits them...