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Warm Grudge. Four weeks ago, Mollenhoff and the White House helped Representative H. R. Gross put together an attack on former Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Humphrey and a friend, Max Kampelman, are said to have interceded in a foreign-aid transaction on behalf of an auto gear and parts factory doing business with India. Williams and Gross used to swap intelligence with Newsman Mollenhoff...
...Japanese steel mills. Ideologically impartial, Japanese industrialists trade with Peking and Taiwan, cut timber in Siberia and make 70% of the baseball gloves sold in the U.S. Japanese experts are training rice farmers in India, and fishermen in Ceylon, building drydocks in Singapore and generally doing more than U.S. foreign-aid officials to develop the economies of many Asian nations...
...FOREIGN AID. Congressional liberals have threatened to withhold support from the $2.65 billion foreign-aid bill. It is a risky maneuver, since the Administration could saddle them with the political blame if the bill fails to pass. But it is also a measure of their discontent that they are taking that risk to dramatize their view that domestic needs have higher priority...
...real picture is even bleaker than the figures suggest. About $3 billion or $4 billion of the nation's exports come from Government-financed sales of foreign-aid supplies and military goods. Not counting all that, the U.S. "commercial" trade will be in the red this year for the first time ever. Expected deficit: $2 billion to $3 billion...
Hayden served in the Marines before going to Viet Nam 20 months ago as a civilian with AID, the U.S. foreign-aid agency. He has been nominated for two Purple Hearts for wounds during and since Tet, for the Bronze Star with a V for valor when he rescued four wounded Vietnamese troops from an ambush late in March, and for the South Vietnamese Chuong My medal-the highest a civilian...