Word: programming
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Welfare. With the U.S. longevity rate increasing, a new special-interest group made itself felt more strongly than ever. In the West particularly, older people expressed concern for their welfare by supporting Kennedy for his Forand-type medical-aid-to-the-aged proposals. Somehow, Kennedy's program got across to old people more clearly than Dick Nixon's complicated aid-through-states plan. It almost certainly gave Kennedy his California lead...
...issue of who should administer a youth service program extends beyond private foundations and the U.S. government to the United Nations. If the "Peace Corps" idea met with favor, other countries, from both the Western alliance and the Soviet bloc, might hasten to join. As the recent General Assembly showed, the neutral nations have considerable respect for the U.N. and conversely, suspicions about either of the great power blocs. If the "Peace Corps" were a U.N. organ, three problems would be alleviated: (1) youth from all nations could join a single organization, (2) neutral countries would accept a U.N. delegation...
...better off than if a strictly U.S. peace corps were sent. However, the central question of draft-exemption again comes up. Is Congress likely to accept U.N. "Peace Corps" work as an alternative to military service, even for just a few hundred or thousand youth? And for the U.N. program it raises difficulties: who would select the participants...
...acts promptly and decisively. The Princeton conference declined to authorize its own pilot project, and placed its faith instead in the initiative of the Kennedy Administration. The new steering committee - including representatives from business, labor, education, churches, foundations - was asked to prepare a detailed prospectus for a "Peace Corps" program, and to present it to Kennedy and the new Congress
...Gaulle is only one man, and whether the center will disappear when de Gaulle goes, Aron refuses to guess. He notes earlier in the text that the Frenchman, "dissatisfied on principle," with a tax system, an industrialization program, or an Algerian policy, "tends to vote against." The parties of the extreme satisfy this need for opposition." Aron hopes that facism (or communism) will not have the chance to come to executive power under a constitution written for de Gaulle alone. He suggests "two courses still open": alliance with the Common Market Six to undertake a coalition great power's "task...