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Soaring Costs. "It's not a welfare program," Mills said of the committee version. "It's a work program. We're taking this out of welfare." But not completely out of politics. One committee amendment will make the bill effective July 1, 1971, well past the congressional elections. The President to report to Congress on its effectiveness one year later. This will place the onus for soaring costs or lack of results squarely on Nixon, and right at the beginning of his 1972 campaign for reelection...
Peterson's force would abolish the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID), which now manages most of the assistance programs, and put U.S. aid funds into a pool managed jointly by the U.S. and other major international contributors, notably Western Europe and Japan. The underdeveloped countries getting aid would also have a bigger voice in deciding how the new multilateral pie would be divided. ''Only a genuinely cooperative program can gain the necessary long-term public support in the U.S.," the report contended...
Unrealistic Objectives. Such a switch might appease many congressional critics of the present program, including Senators William Fulbright and Edmund Muskie, as well as George Aiken, who recently damned the existing scheme as "a diplomatic pork barrel." It would also help to further lower the U.S. profile in international affairs, as Nixon wants to do. Military aid would be split off entirely from economic and technical assistance, thus ending a longstanding confusion. The U.S. would set up an international development bank, which would have $4 billion in capital and borrowing authority, and a technical-aid institute initially authorized...
Norodom Sihanouk, left for treatment in France of a blood ailment. Sihanouk, who broke off relations with the U.S. over Viet Nam in 1965, has been executing a careful diplomatic turnaround since Washington began its withdrawal program. At the same time he has been voicing serious concern over the Communists' continued use of Cambodian territory as a base of operations...
...boom is backfiring, with an impact that threatens major trouble for President Nixon's Vietnamization program. Unless Saigon can pay more of the bills-as well as do more of the fighting-South Viet Nam will never really be able to stand on its own. Last fall President Nguyen Van Thieu took some halting steps toward economic reform, imposing taxes as high as 280% on some 1,500 imported consumer items; Hondas, for example, doubled in price...