Charity Costs Document Urged
Americans give about 26 billion dollars yearly to charity yet donors rarely know how much funds go to actual aid versus fundraising. A New Mexico retiree reports 439 solicitations from 95 charities in 1975, many unfamiliar. A Truth in Contributions Act would require reporting of allocation, pushing more money to worthy causes and cutting wasteful fundraising. Congress committees consider measures to curb misused funds and promote accountability.
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Actus
New Mexico
House Post Office Committee
Congress
Global Economic Aid Backfires in Three Decades of Aid
United Nations development program experts review thirty years since postwar aid, noting rising debt, dependency, and unemployment despite vast loans, plantings, and technology. They warn surplus wealth created new problems, with a growing, unsustainable global economy likened to a downhill snowball.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations Development Program
U.N
Brezhnev’s Detente View Deepens US-Soviet Rift
Henry J Taylor outlines Kissinger’s detente concept as opportunities lost once passed. Brezhnev privately briefed seven satellite leaders that detente is a tactical device to gain time and Soviet superiority, masking a continuing drive to strengthen military and economic power, prompting Ford to abandon the term.
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Henry A. Kissinger
U.S.S.R
United States
Europe
Latin America
Middle East
Southeast Asia
Brezhnev
Kremlin
Soviet Bloc
Angola
Ford
Pride and politics in Carter and Reagan rhetoric
The piece contrasts Carter's vague call to love America with Reagan’s outspoken push for national pride. It notes Reagan’s focus on specific grievances like Panamanian sovereignty and Kissinger policies, linking his stance to a broader rebound from Vietnam. It cites Moynihan and Jackson, and references Canal Zone tensions and Rhodesia.
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Carter
America
Ronald Reagan
U.N
Reagan
Florida
North Carolina
Kissinger
Helmut Sonnenfieldt
Europe
Moscow
Pat Moynihan
Moynihan
Texas
Alamo
Ford
Panama Canal
Omar Torrijos
State Department
Congress
Canal Zone
Vietnam
Dung
Washington, D.C
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Tomeh
Sige
Henry J. Taylor
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Taylor
Todor Zhivkov
Bulgaria
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Ludvik Svoboda
Czechoslovakia
Erich Honecher
East Germany
Janos Kadar
Hungary
Henryk Jablonski
Poland
Nicolae Ceausescu
Romania
Castro
Lenin
Seven
West
U.S
John Chamberlain
Henry Jackson
George Meany
Panama
Colombia
Ian Smith
Chamberlain
The
Small Society
Brickman
Beckie
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