Word: specials
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...levels, has certain clear obligations to you and me," said he to a hostile audience. "It owes us security from external attack, protection of our person and property, protection in the exercise of all the individual rights guaranteed by our Constitution." Government may also help out "particular groups" with special aid or subsidy. But the reason for help or subsidy "is not to give one group of citizens special privilege or undeserved advantage. Rather it is to see that equality of opportunity is not withheld from the citizen through no fault of his own." The groups for which the Government...
...point where no such guarantee was necessary." In 1960, Dwight Eisenhower's last year in office, he may in a sense be the victim of his own success in 1959. Ahead lie his trip to the Soviet Union and a series of summit conferences?all carrying a special challenge, since the U.S. has become the home of so many hopes. For the same reason the U.S. will have less privacy and more urgency in facing 1960's other problems, old and new: the dangerous U.S. lag in space achievement; the delicate, perilous balance between fiscal responsibility and military strength...
...month convinced that the U.S. would have to involve itself as a direct participant in consultation between the two developing trading groups, if only to protect its own trade interests. But Washington was not particularly interested in bridging or blending the two groups, in order that they might exchange special privileges that exclude the Americans. Instead, the U.S. itself wants in on any trading of special preferences...
...compare Nkrumah and Mboya. "Through Kwame Nkrumah, Tom Mboya happened to be built up as an African nationalist leader," explained Labor Official John Tettegah. "Now Mboya has become so conceited he thinks he is God and the world is his." Added N. A. Welbeck, Nkrumah's Minister with Special Duties: "Mboya is an imp not fit to lick Nkrumah's boots . . . Nkrumah is a consuming fire. Anybody who tries to destroy him will be destroyed first." Everyone knows, concluded Party Secretary Adamafio, that "Nkrumah is a superman, master and god on his own scene. America had its Lincoln...