Word: pearson
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...Pearson recommendations have long been awaited, especially by the Nixon Administration. In his campaign, Nixon seemed to hint at a further cutback, stressing that "we are spread far too thin in too many countries." He has also said that he likes aid that "aids the U.S.A.," suggesting the use of assistance as a political tool...
Such an approach does not always pay off, at least not to the degree of the 'postwar Marshall Plan in Europe. "Aid for development," says the Pearson report, "does not usually buy dependable friends." Then why give at all? On the simplest level, the report stated, "it is only right for those who have to share with those who have not." Then again, the report notes, "we live in a village world," where concern with problems at home and abroad is becoming "a political and social imperative." Strongest of all is the pragmatic argument that aid-fostered development will...
...Both the Pearson report and a recent study by the Manhattan-based Committee for Economic Development recommend that much more aid be channeled through multilateral agencies like the World Bank; only 10% flows through such bodies at present. Another Pearson recommendation is that countries increase their aid to seven-tenths of one percent of their gross national product in five years. In the U.S., that would mean an annual foreign aid outlay of $8 billion by 1975. Even if Nixon seconded that motion, which is virtually unthinkable, there is no chance that Congress would go along...
Plainly, it would be a mistake to let the momentum of aid slip further. Over the past few years, 41 poor countries have managed to achieve yearly growth rates of 2% or better in per-capita income, despite sharp population increases. Pearson's goal is a growth rate of 6% throughout the next decade, and "self-sustaining" expansion for most of the underdeveloped countries by the year 2000. If the report's proposed aid increases are adopted, and if population growth can be held down-two enormous ifs -they might make it. If not, Pearson's "village...
...reporters whose influence, usefulness, or even friendship gains them favored status. Jack Kennedy nightcapped his Inaugural at the home of Columnist Joseph Alsop; Lyndon Johnson in the early days regularly called in James Reston of the New York Times for private chats and personally leaked stories to Drew Pearson. Richard Nixon has changed all that. He follows a methodical formula for the impartial treatment of members of the Washington press corps: he is equally remote from all of them. He grants no private interviews, and, until two weeks ago, had held no public news conference since the middle of June...