Word: programing
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...course of their work, TIME ' correspondents, writers and editors enjoy contact with most of the world's newsmakers. Recently, we started a new program of inviting some of these newsmakers to address the entire staff of the magazine. So far this year, our guests have included New York City's mayor, John Lindsay, and Comedian-Politician Dick Gregory. Last week TIME'S 300-seat auditorium had an S.R.O. crowd for William F. Buckley Jr., witty archconservationist of conservatism...
...ensure better care. When signing the anti-crime bill, he attached some strongly worded reservations. Before an audience of educators, he defended his Viet Nam policies, and goaded his listeners with a taunt about their own troubles. "I'd be interested to know," said he, "how the pacification program is doing, how much progress you are making in reform, how things are doing in the outlying buildings, and whether you still hold the central administration offices...
...There were disappointments. The Russians again snubbed his bid for friendlier relations. Congress threatened to cut his modest $2.9 billion foreign aid program by one-third. Though Administration officials noted "some movement" in the Paris peace talks, it still seemed too slight to justify his March 31 renunciation of a second term...
From all appearances, he is in for a long wait. The campaign can point to some limited successes with the Administration. The Agriculture Department agreed to speed up food relief programs in 256 of the country's poorest counties. The Labor Department hurried a plan to create 100,000 new jobs. The Office of Economic Opportunity found $25 million more for the Head Start school program and emergency food and health care...
Where will the cuts come from? House committees last week sliced into foreign-aid funds and into the proposed budgets of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the Office of Economic Opportunity. Congress thus showed an alarming eagerness to chop hardest at politically vulnerable programs despite their proven value-one in furthering U.S. policy abroad, the others in coping with urgent problems at home. Military spending not directly related to Viet Nam will likely be reduced as well, along with the space program and such public works as highway construction and waterway improvement. The Federal Aviation Agency...