Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...historic open-housing law covering 80% of all sales and rentals by 1970 was enacted, and a $5.3 billion three-year program to provide 1,700,000 units for low-income families and subsidies to help the poor buy homes...
Among the minuses, in addition to Congress's deplorable ax job on the foreign aid program...
...acceptable to all Rhodesians, meaning by majority vote. Smith has insisted that it be approved only by a vote among the black chiefs, who are in his government's pay. Smith has not made the chiefs' acquiescence overly difficult. Since 1965, his government has underwritten a program of public works in African villages, and won enough approval from Rhodesia's blacks for nationalist guerrillas to be regularly turned in by their own people...
These overseas Chinese are the cadre of Taiwan's small but surprisingly successful technical assistance program to underdeveloped nations in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America Begun in 1961, "Project Vanguard, run with little publicity on a shoestring budget of $5,000,000 a year, today has 1 239 technical experts in 27 countries...
Taiwan's aid program in Africa, where Vanguard concentrates its efforts, is impartial enough to include a nation like Ethiopia, which votes for Peking in the U.N. It thus serves as an advertisement to countries still diplomatically uncommitted. Several countries have recognized Taipei after receiving technical advice; last week Vice Foreign Minister Yang Hsi-kung wound up his 22nd tour of the continent, bringing back diplomatic recognition from Gambia and newly independent Swaziland, and new cultural and economic agreements with four other African nations. So far, Taipei leads Peking 20 to 13 in the battle for recognition by African...