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Arriving in Venezuela on the first stop of his tour, Kissinger lost no time outlining a detailed American program for dealing with these issues. Addressing a symposium of diplomats, academics and businessmen in the seaside resort of Caraballeda, Kissinger promised U.S. action in six areas. These include greater U.S. aid through the International Monetary Fund and the Inter-American Development Bank, help in stabilizing commodity prices, and cooperation with the Latin American Economic System (SELA), a plan for regional economic cooperation founded last year...
...rise has brought a return of almost forgotten prosperity to some of the nation's remote poor towns. For example, in Beckley, W. Va. (pop. 14,000), brand-new Cadillacs line the streets, two new shopping centers have risen outside town and a resort community has opened in the rolling country beyond. And that may be just the start of the boom, which could extend to many other communities. President Ford has called for a doubling of coal output...
When a prisoner is particularly stubborn about admitting his "mistake" or "crime," he is "struggled" or put into solitary confinement as a last resort. No one is ever beaten or tortured, however, and it is, as Pasqualini says, fascinating to see how far the Chinese get by talking alone. Yet "struggling" is a pretty exhausting process mentally, if not physically. The victim sits surrounded by his fellow inmates, head bowed, as they hurl phrases like "Down with the obstinate prisoner" or "Confess or face the consequences." Sometimes forbidden words, "liar," "scum" or "son of a bitch" slip...
Meanwhile, Southern Railway conceded that it had paid for a Christmas visit by Agriculture Secretary Butz to the railroad's private resort near Charleston, S.C.-even though the Agriculture Department has filed petitions with the Interstate Commerce Commission protesting rate increases by Southern on farm products. Butz told the Associated Press that he had done nothing wrong, said he would repay part of the cost himself and defiantly added that, if asked, he would visit the resort again next Christmas...
...same, the government responded by drafting the workers into the army, thereby making any refusal to work punishable by court-martial. The danger in the government's hard-line policies is that the dissatisfied workers, deprived of any peaceful means to make changes, will eventually resort to violence. Arias' reform program contained not a single word about free labor unions or any alteration in the government-controlled syndicates that have long made up an important part of Franco's "corporate" state...