In early 1947, Harry Truman announced that the United States would give assistance to countries under threat from authoritarian forces. Later that year, George C. Marshall addressed Harvard Universit…
(Archived document, may contain errors) 762 March 29,1990 HOW AMERICA CAN HELP BALTIC INDEPENDENCE The Baltic peoples struggle for independence is entering its decisive phase. For now, the spotlight is on Lithuania, where Mikhail Gorbachevs 1 show of force is an attempt to frighten into submission that countrys democratically elected government In the wings, ready to move to stage cen ter, are the independence movements of Estonia and Latvia.
Next week the United States Census Bureau will release its annualreport on "poverty" stating, as it has for many years, that thereare some 31 million to 32 million poor Americans, a number greaterthan in 1965 when the War on Poverty began.