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Some aspects of the anti-poverty program were intended to do just that: by infusing money into self-help projects, the government would enable the impoverished to climb out of the rut and, through hard work, to leave it behind. Included in the attack on poverty was a job-training program for the unemployed, the provision of part-time jobs for teenagers, community anti-poverty projects, loans to low-income farmers and businessmen and a domestic peace corps. An Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) was established to coordinate these programs...
...turned into a university, the lessons in criminal know-how from fellow inmates have now shifted to a more general unofficial education in sociology, history and politics. The growth of the new curriculum has coincided with a widespread proliferation of new prison organiza tions. Some have provided a useful self-help structure; others have merely helped to pass the time constructively. A few are responsible for a frightening new element graduating to the streets. Perhaps the most vivid example is the Symbionese Liberation Army which grew twistedly out of the peaceful Black Cultural Association, a five-year-old California prisoners...
Evans and his Huntsville project soon received the attention of the national press. Newsweek, in an article reporting the project, described his achievement this way: "A poor farm boy by birth, an engineer by profession and a passionate apostle of black self-help by virtue of his own experience, Evans has accomplished the remarkable feat by searching the back country of the Deep South for dirt-poor but talented black high-school students who were unaware that institutions like Harvard, Dartmouth and Amherst are urgently seeking youngsters precisely like them...
...title suggests, the book is a psychiatric pep talk in the long tradition of self-help books that provide what Psychiatrist Karl Menninger once called "bibliotherapy." Children used to learn how to live from their parents, notes Herbert C. Kelman, professor of social ethics at Harvard. But now "every generation is on its own and often seeks a packaged way of acquiring wisdom...
...Self-Help Projects. At present, half of the Portuguese troops on duty in Africa are recruited from the territories themselves, and 40% are black. Special groups of yellow-bereted black troops are used to "mentalize the masses"-a sort of winning-the-hearts-and-minds program carried out by living with villagers for long periods, organizing self-help projects and pleading the Portuguese cause. Other units, known as flechas (arrows), are made up of rebel defectors who sometimes patrol in captured uniforms and are rewarded with cash bounties for every guerrilla or guerrilla weapon they capture...