Word: assistant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assist you in filling out forms is the Freshman Task Force. These are bright, energetic young people who will remind you of the bouncy cast of the Frosted Mini-Wheats commercials. You may think, "What lovely people, giving up large chunks of their time to assist poor confused freshmen. Someday I'll be like that, too." Well, you'll have to wait in line, sport. These folks are paid...
...Bangkok, where the U.N. maintains a 15-story skyscraper, the UNHCR has only 48 full-time employees to deal with a refugee population currently totaling 175,000. At the country's 16 refugee camps, a swamped staff of just twelve field workers is assigned to monitor aid and assist in resettlement. At least 40,000 of the inhabitants have been in the camps for three years or more because they do not qualify for resettlement; usually, that means they do not have a "prior link" with a resettlement country, such as having relatives there. The despair among...
DIED. Rexford Guy Tugwell, 88, liberal economist who, as a member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Brain Trust," masterminded many of the New Deal's reforms; of cancer; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Tugwell was a professor at Columbia University when recruited to assist Roosevelt, then Governor of New York, in his quest for the presidency. Appointed Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in 1933, he became one of F.D.R.'s most powerful advisers, supporting sweeping social welfare programs, tough Government regulation of industry and subsidies to farmers for not planting surplus crops. Appointed Governor of Puerto Rico by Roosevelt...
...delay may not be a bad idea, whatever its causes. With Jimmy Carter having his troubles in Washington, Brown has the luxury of waiting, and of not wearing out his welcome any further. Carter's declining popularity has boosted Brown's relative strength with no assist from the Governor himself. The New York Times-CBS poll recently showed Brown actually running slightly ahead of Carter in a direct pairing. Both men, of course, trail far be hind Ted Kennedy among Democrats surveyed...
Kicking off the testimony last week were two of the Administration's most important SALT-sellers: Vance and Defense Secretary Harold Brown. They presented powerful arguments on behalf of the pact. Vance stressed that the accord "will greatly assist us in maintaining a stable balance of nuclear forces. It fully protects a strong American defense." Taking aim at critics who argue that SALT II is a bad deal for the U.S., Vance emphasized that the treaty "will permit, and in fact aid, the necessary modernization of our strategic forces. And it will slow the momentum of Soviet strategic programs...