Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Deep as those cuts were, they were superficial compared to gouges made in other programs. For foreign aid, the House irresponsibly appropriated only $1.6 billion, lowest sum in the program's 21-year history and $1.3 billion less than President Johnson's bare-bones request. Development loan funds were hacked from the $765 million asked for by the Administration to only $265 million. The Alliance for Progress got only $290 million of a requested $625 million, which touched off bitter complaints all over Latin America...
Almost unnoticed, Congress quietly whacked $13.9 million from the Administration's requested funds for educational and cultural exchanges in August, in the process virtually gutting the famed Fulbright scholar program established in 1946. Fulbright money was reduced 72%, plummeting from $680,000 to $136,000 for Britain alone...
...first Mos cow demonstration by a small organization called War Resisters' International, founded in The Netherlands after World War I and now headquartered in London. W.R.I., which claims branches in 40 nations, supports nonviolence and works closely with the Quakers. A major point in its program is "to seek and maintain contact with war resisters in countries where it is dangerous to oppose government policy...
...when the Ocean Hill-Brownsville governing committee asked for the transfer of 13 teachers that it considered objectionable, 350 other teachers in the area abandoned their classes in sympathy. Thereupon, the committee set out to hire substitutes. Many of the newcomers were recruited from a special intensive-training program set up by the New York Board of Education to ease the city's teacher shortage...
...convict lecturers are from the maximum-security section of the penitentiary, and a few are bank rob bers and murderers. Yet nobody has tried to escape so far. The men realize that one escape would doom the whole program, and they themselves choose the five four-man teams who go - with the approval of prison authorities. So far, the teams have traveled a total of more than 200,000 miles across the state and have spoken to some 750,000 Coloradans. Their message usually goes like this: "I'm on the road to nowhere...