Word: aid
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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CAMBODIA. Antiwar Senators including J. William Fulbright succeeded in attaching amendments to two separate bills meant to prevent President Nixon from using any more funds to send U.S. troops or military advisers into Cambodia: a $66 billion defense appropriations measure, and a $1 billion foreign aid authorization. The language in the defense bill was so altered by a House-Senate conference committee that the limitation was rendered ineffective-and another Senate wrangle was shaping up over that...
...from January to November. The main force behind the housing rebound, however, has been an astonishing rise in federal subsidies and loans. About one-third of the houses and apartments built this year received some federal subsidy, and next year close to half of them will get aid from Washington...
HORNETS' NEST is a weird little war movie full of bizarre energy and merciless violence, a kind of Dirty Dozen Reach Puberty. The plot has to do with a group of Italian war orphans who capture a downed American paratrooper (Rock Hudson) and enlist his aid in wreaking bloody revenge on the Nazi occupation forces. There is one sardonic sequence where he teaches the kids to shoot machine guns and another, quite brutal, where they all joyously massacre a town full of Nazis. Director Phil Karlson's fadeout is hopelessly sentimental, and there is a subplot about...
...establishment of secure borders. What Dayan wanted was U.S. reassurance that it would veto any Russian attempt to introduce a new resolution stressing only territories. Washington was noncommittal, but did indicate that it is ready to fill an Israeli shopping list that runs to $500 million in military aid over the next two years. The list is so detailed that Laird, only half kidding, has declared: "These guys want stuff I never even heard...
...consortium of students and faculty members from Hampshire and the nearby campuses of Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Amherst and the University of Massachusetts. The money was to pay expenses while the consortium decided on a social-improvement project for the Connecticut River valley and enlisted the aid of local firms in carrying it out. "It is right," Rockefeller added, "for older people to be pushed...