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...maybe you could suggest to the President that the United States take some money out of Vietnam so that it could be reinvested in a safer and more profitable venture, such as shares in the Golf Oil Company. Although I am not an economist I suspect that the private sector is still more efficient in colonial enterprise than the government is proving itself to be in Southeast Asia--but is your specialty, and so I will not be so bold as to make any more suggestions concerning economics...
...regions, if they are to maintain the relatively high rates of return on investments to which they have become accustomed. Until now they have been denied access to these areas on a regular basis -- that is, they have been deterred from making large-scale investments in the crucial manufacturing sector - on account of the reigning political instabilities, and the consequent risks of doing business there...
...that only a strong central government which is committed to the development of the country as a whole, and to all the people, can provide the kind of politically stable and orderly legal environment which is the first pre-requisite for investments in the all important manufacturing sector. And it means transforming our military aid and assistance programs into new programs of aid and assistance directed towards the creation of the necessary infra-structure, in terms of regional power, transport, and communication facilities. If these things were done, it would leave only agricultural reform, and local infra-structure (both...
...upper echelons of major departments have been decimated: several are gone from the health sector of HEW; only two of the ten top officials survive in the Labor Department; four are out at Agriculture; five have been dismissed at Justice. Only one assistant secretary is likely to remain at Interior. The sacking of longtime Park Service Chief George Hartzog stirred the biggest outcry there. "He has more competence in his little finger than that whole bunch at the White House," growled a staff member of the Senate Interior Committee, which was not consulted on the firings...
JOBS (for Job Opportunities in the Business Sector) program, under which companies contract to hire and train the hard-core unemployed and are reimbursed for half their wages, started strongly in 1968. But many companies cut hiring of trainees during the 1970 recession and have not increased it in the present economic upsurge. A study by the Congressional Joint Economic Committee staff charged that a few JOBS employers used federal money to hire uneducated, foreign-born hopefuls for dead-end jobs-although the companies were supposed to train them for jobs with upward mobility...