AID for the Domestic Economy
Historically, U.S. foreign assistance programs have been supported by "liberal" (expansionist) elements from the major industrial/financial centers while vehemently opposed by...
...After the massive expenditure of men and materiel in Vietnam, the Senate's action could cause the collapse of that country's economy...
...Several others, such as Columbia University, have been exposed as harboring CIA work in specific departments or institutes...
...33-39...
...nationalism...
...Over the period FY 1964-1969, the cargo financed under Foreign Assistance Act (FAA) programs has ranged from 22 to 30 percent of the total cargo moving on U,S...
...Foreign Economic Assistance," is available free from U.S...
...These legislative bodies, influenced by isolationists who control several key committee chairmanships, strongly resisted the bills...
...There are no funds in AID's pipelines except those that are required to pay for contracts made with other governments or with U.S...
...Foreign Economic Rssistance AID Share of U.S...
...representatives and senators of the ways in which U.S...
...foreign assistance programs have been supported by "liberal" (expansionist) elements from the major industrial/financial centers while vehemently opposed by "conservative" (isolationist) forces from rural areas...
...We cannot reduce our military presence abroad without helping others to build their economies and peacekeeping forces...
...What happens to them...
...AID until June 30th of this year at a reduced level, passed the Senate...
...mdd4 . T; f 11 i - i '. .E L -t, I I I r. I i I I i I I 1. For polular examples of this analysis see J. William Fulbright, The Arogance of Power (New York, 1966) and Ronald Steel, Pax Americana (New York, 1967...
...The liberals proposed 1) separating military and economic appropriations, placing the former under the Department of Defense and 2) transferring the administration of economic assistance funds from the bilateral U.S...
...The termination of AID funding on November 15 would result in an abrupt break in joint planning activities with a serious loss of momentum and a destructive blow to the positive psychological climate achieved to date This Guatemalan guerillero in the Zapaca region drinks alot of milk liberated from U.S...
...The Asian Development Bank had its operations well launched, but it, too, is growing rapidly already and one could not expect it to accelerate its rate of expansion...
...A Spaniard came looking for gold...
...Michael Locker & David Tobis A , , , ,,, *IdNN 'O 9oqC O _ .N " _ fl4Ni ^ "i' ~ ~ 0 j~~ a .. . .* n . NOw t 99 909999 04 -. . d . di rm~ n 1 #ii#5ifggw5...
...Under the bilateral technical assistance program, AID assists the Panama Government in priority areas such as investment pro(continued on p. 31)23 (continued from p. 22) motion in Panama, health and family planning and municipal development...
...Nicaragua 2, 331 - 594 -------- 1,737...
...a serious balance of payments and foreign:exchange situations...
...American University of Beirut Columbia University African-American Institute Education Development Center [WK International Ltd., Gibbs Hill, Inc., Fischbach Moore Continental Air Services, Inc...
...Each year the executive branch of the government, where expansionists are dominant, has put forward an enlarged assistance bill and fought for its passage through the House of Representatives and the Senate...
...AID Comr.nitments in Latin Arnmerica, Fi.cg7l YIear 1970 [Thousands of Dollars] Approliatlon Category Alliance for Progress Country Development Loans Tech- Contin- Total Loans Grants for Supporting nical gency Population Assist:nce Assitance Fund Programs Total .-- 421, 736 319, 468 10, 956 1, 9S0 80, 001 9, 332 Argentina ------------ 974 _---_____-__________ 974 .---- Bolivia - 2, 970 --- 145 ------ 2, 825...
...3) April and ay/June, 1970...
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...engineering firms, U.S...
...First, we do not believe that the capacity of these institutions is such that they could cope with what would be a doubling or tripling of their activity...
...universities and colleges to help carry out programs of assistance around the world...
...It has been said that funds in our pipeline will see us through...
...iSATIS AMICA I I I I II I qillSr J IjI I I IF 'Illll 5 T & 1 4* . Uon op mP~if ts 'A O I I I I I I F18 Facts on Selected Aspects of U.S...
...to strengthen the ability of local governments to carry on development activities...
...1971...
...Fact Sheet on University Involvement in AID Program As of December 31, 1970, AID had contracts with 120 U.S...
...Sixty-five Bolivians currently receiving training in the United States would have to terminate studies prematurely and return to Bolivia...
...As a result purchases are made in the United States (99.7 percent of all AID-financed exports were purchased from the United States in FY 1971...
...Feasibility Studies -$1.5 million) would grind to a halt without U.S...
...33, 875 5, 000 5, 260...
...Of the above organizations, Air America, African-American Institute, Continental Air Services, American Institute for Free Labor Development and the Asia Foundation have been identified as covertly receiving CIA funds and/or performing CIA intelligence work...
...29, 1971] will have the effect of bringing the AID program to a halt on November 15 [1971...
...to provide textbooks for school children in grades 1 through 6; to provide family planning services...
...industries in these export areas, but also on the U.S...
...3. For a discription of "bilateral" vs...
...government:responded immediately by making a $2 million grant and a $12 million loan available...
...2 As a result, economic programs, the heart of the AID effort, were ineffective and rather than winning friends were promoting anti-U.S...
...the World Bank or the InterAmerican Development Bank) in order to increase efficiency and blunt anti-U.S...
...Some 15,000 students from less developed countries are now enrolled in educational institutions and programs in the U.S...
...Social unrest flows across national borders too...
...AID has helped pacify politically unstable countries and preserve a favorable investment climate...
...support for right-wing dictatorships, the military-industrial complex and crude forms of U.S...
...In addition, two projected loans (agricultural credit -- $8 million and Private Investment -- $5.5 million) to encourage renewed private sector activity (essential to economic development and political stability) would not be forthcoming...
...overseas investment could be the cause for the liberal opposition to bilateral aid...
...absence of any new investment...
...multilateral" assist- ance programs see Hector elo and Isreal Yost, "Funding the Empire: Part I and II," NACLA NEWSLETTER (Vol IV, No...
...Part of the basic research work which produced the new high yielding seeds and helped spark the "Green Revolution" was performed under these contracts...
...For instance, over the past six years IDA lending has increased almost 100 percent, To double the lending activity of IDA within even two years would be, we believe, unrealistic...
...This high rate of growth is itself to a great extent a result of the foreign aid AID Share of United States Exports, FY 1970 and 1971 Fiscal Year 1970 (Millions of Dollars) Fiscal Year 1971 (Millions of Dollars) Product Chemicals (excluding Fertilizer) U.S...
...Over the last decade, however, some representatives of the expansionists in the Senate have joined with the isolationists in opposing the foreign assistance bill...
...Social unrest results from hunger, or from seeing one's family die because there is no health care, or no hope that through education one's children may have better lives than their parents because there are no schools, no teachers, no books for them...
...2, 85 . -S--S El Salv.adr ----------- 10, 280 7, SOO 51 1,962 - Guatenila------ ----- 29, 090 25, 100 .344 410 2, 858 -78 Guyana ------------ 1, 258 __________________.-___ _ 1, 25-S .-- Haiti ..- 1, 589 2 19...
...We requested $655 million for bilateral lending, and $810 million in contributions to international lending agencies...
...This accounts for much of the apparent drop in total U.S...
...East Caribbean Regional --------- 10, 099 10, 000 ----------- 99 Regional...
...The total cumulative value of currently existing contracts in this category is $3,058,347...
...It would end U.S...
...Texas A M The Population Council, Inc...
...AID has distributed through Central America 10 million copies of school textbooks such as the one in this picture...
...The son asks, 'Why did the Indians not return?' 'Because they found a place to live better', answered Mama...
...In several the "Anglo-Saxons" are already believed to play an excessive role...
...AID depots.22 One of the First Cavalry M-60 machine guns which is mounted as a door gun in a Huey helicopter in Tay Ninh, Viet Nam...
...economic exploitation abroad...
...groups unable to expand as rapidly and monopolize world markets could still need U.S...
...From there they moved toward a broad critique of U.S...
...Foreign assistance is crucial to the Nixon Doctrine...
...and in third countries...
...They naturally could fear the loss of their present political influence over the allocation of funds in the move toward multilateralization...
...AID will cost U.S, suppliers some $3 billion worth of orders for supplies and ser* Ironically, much of the world's heroine trade is supported by CIA operations, especially from Laos...
...The Senate action threatens the livelihood of 12,000 AID employees -- six thousand of them Americans, at work in Washington and around the world...
...liner cargo from FY 1964 to 1969...
...It will undermine all of our efforts to bring stability to Southeast Asia...
...On the other hand, smaller U.S...
...continued on p. 23)17 (continued from p. 16) The recent debate over the foreign aid bill did produce an interesting document from U.S...
...They realized that they had found a very beautiful place...
...The growing U.S...
...The Indians lived where there was gold but did not know its value...
...20 Ten Cities Receiving Highest Dollar Value Ten Cities Receiving Highest Dollar Value for Orders of AID-Financed Commodities -- FY 71 CITY DOLLAR VALUE 1. New York, New York 2. Detroit, Michigan 3. Peoria, Illinois 4. Houston, Texas 5. Tacoma, Washington 6. Chicago, Illinois 7. Sparrows Point, Maryland 8. Stockton, California 9. Milwaukee, Wisconsin 10...
...It also tries to point out how U.S...
...All the Banks already are growing at a very rapid pace...
...export subsidies to remain competitive...
...4 The document was prepared to convince U.S...
...Introduction: Excerpts from the Statement by the Hon...
...Twenty-five universities hold research contracts under our Central Research Program...
...Flag Fiscal Year Liner Cargo* FY - '64 FY - '65 FY - '66 FY - '67 FY - '68 FY - '69 9.3 8.5 6.4 6.5 6.0 5.7 (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) FAA Financed Foreign Percentage PL 480 Programs Percentage Total FAA PL 480 Percentage AID Cargo (2 of 1) Administered by AID (4 of 1) (2 + 4) (6 of 1) 2.5 1.9 1.7 1.5 1.5 1.7 26.9 22.4 26.6 23.1 25.0 29.8 2.7 2.2 1.7 1.4 1.3 1.3 29.0 25.9 26.6 21.5 21.7 22.8 5.2 4.1 3.4 2.9 2.8 3.0 55.9 48.3 53.2 44.6 46.7 52.6 *Increasing numbers of U.S.-owned ships are registered in such foreign countries as Panama and Liberia to avoid U.S...
...Liner Cargo Originating in the U.S...
...Amount $ 7,715,066 1,558,041 211,067 726,671 51,733,490 839,566 178,829,271 9,688,882 1.454 46,644,037 3,524,695 6,4935,725 77,081,159 2,245,999 8,761,659 91,359 8,350,951 54,930,416 463,148 844,396 10,162,141 32,072,205 5,817,772 24,763,247 32,040 $ 900,580,243 U.S...
...Liberals concentrated in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under the chairmanship of J. William Fulbright first launched their attack on U.S...
...Discontinuance of U.S...
...This type of program offers technical assistance and related material support to "develop" the social, political, or economic resources of the aided country...
...Source: U.S...
...Bolivia, with the lowest GNP per capita in Latin America, has serious immediate needs for continued external grant and loan assistance for economic development...
...On August 22, 1971, the leftist government of General Juan Jose Torres was overthrown by a coalition led by Col...
...Third, the United States will certainly for the foreseeable future wish to have authority to lend to less developed nations on concessional terms to meet particular cases in which our view of the development situation in a country may differ from that of the international lending institutions, to participate in consortia or coordinating group activity, and to reflect our foreign policy interest...
...The top) twenty states received 83 percent of the dollar value of all AID financed commodity purchases in the United States in fiscal 1971...
...It is hoped that thoughtful Americans will take a hard look at today's world -- and recognize that before we put 100 percent of our attention on our domestic problems, we remember that polluted air and polluted water flow freely across national boundaries...
...About 42 percent ($3.00) was spent on "development assistance," the majority of which is actually a subsidy for the export of U.S.-produced goods and shippers...
...The Indians showed him where it was...
...Failure to continue implementation of the $8.5 million Education loan will impede the progress of Panama's highly publicized education expansion and reform program, the product of four years' effort...
...There will be no funds to pay them beyond November 15...
...Twenty-six universities and colleges have received 30 Institutional Grants at a total five-year funding level of $19,901,000...
...Civil Air Transport -- $2.0 million...
...AID structure to multilateral organizations (e.g...
...Any interruption in implementation of the $20 million Panama City potable water loan could lead to severe rationing of water supplied from the Canal Zone, thereby increasing tensions between the Zone and Panama...
...75, 767 71, 700 470 ----- 3, 597 . Costa Rica...
...nationalism...
...The African Development Bank is embryonic...
...The same position was well represented in the liberated Council on Foreign Relations documents printed in the NACLA Newsletter (Vol...
...to make Bolivia self-sufficient in key agricultural products (e.g...
...The total cumulative value of these contracts is $232,165,442...
...We have no answers to these and many other questions...
...He also taught them to believe in one God...
...exports to these countries have more than doubled in the past ten years, in large part because of their average annual rate of increase in gross national product of 5.6 percent...
...V, No...
...Top 15 Cities in Value of Technical Service Contracts Multilateral Administration of Bilateral Lending Programs New York, New York Washington, D.C...
...Mlexico...
...2. Technical assistance activities: Current activities to improve the Government of Bolivia's ability to collect and rationally utilize revenues -- to provide land titles to poor farmers...
...wheat, vegetable oils...
...Pittsburg, Pennsylvania $ 144,810,186 33,457,232 24,560,815 23,596,083 18,784,586 16,289,847 12,875,916 11,691,187 11,531,249 9,599,716 Technical Service Contracts * (in effect as of December 31, 1970 Total value: $679,282,565 Top 20 Institutions in Value of Technical Service Contracts* Air America, Inc...
...These loans reflect stated investment priorities of the Government of Panama and include areas of mutual concern such as Education Reform, expansion of the potable water system of Panama City, and Malaria Eradication...
...through U.S...
...1, 000 .--------------------- --...------ 1, no...
...How does the capital structure of various large and small financial groups effect their view of bilateral vs...
...contractors...
...therefore, we feel a need for much more research...
...In addition, loans being jointly prepared by the Government of Panama and the U.S...
...19, 547 17, 400 273 1, 74 Dominican 1ecpublic -- 5, 175 1,750 3, 425 Ecuador -------------- 23...
...North Carolina State University University of Illinois Kansas State University International Executive Service Corps Colorado State University American Institute for Free Labor Development The Asia Foundation Battelle Memorial Institute University of North Carolina American ORT Federation The Pathfinder Fund $83,324,200 61,176,819 24,575,326 23,388,613 22,072.037 20,847,198 16,247,000 12,198,686 10,946,655 9,706,512 9,376,859 8,154,476 8,132,622 7,613,884 7,593,606 7,218,440 7,039,281 7,037,704 6,299,666 6,174,500 Total value in U.S.: $642,038,186 Total foreign: $ 37,244,379 Top 20 States in Value of Technical Service Contracts New York District of Columbia Massachusetts California Illinois Washington Ohio North Carolina Texas Michigan Wyoming Colorado Wisconsin Kansas Indiana Pennsylvania Maryland Hawaii West Virginia Utah $ 190,009,364 123,457,255 50,589,568 49,965,733 28,865,769 21,214,658 18,199,534 17,340,451 15,291,605 14,421,422 11,341,990 10,485,230 9,782,822 8,352,018 7,549,020 6,524,551 5,000,365 4,494,416 4,108,827 3,807,921 * Some of these contracts are actually a cover for CIA-funded operations, a technique employed more widely after the 1967 NSA-CIA scandal...
...Exports $3,575 AID Financed Percentage $139.0 3.9% U.S...
...Under these contracts, 59 U.S, universities are carrying out assistance programs in education, agricultuse, public administration and other fields in 39 countries...
...Thus, they lived happily in their village mining gold and cultivating the land...
...The U.S...
...The Indians fled...
...2. For example, in Fiscal Year 1971, each U.S...
...Community Development -- $915,000...
...Agency for International Development (U.S...
...1970...
...The advantages of this more indirect system are clear lower political profile automatic burden-sharing joint participation of donor and recipient...
...Newton, Massachusetts Seattle, Washington Los Angeles, California College Station, Texas Chicago, Illinois Columbus, Ohio Raleigh, North Carolina Urbana, Illinois Boston, Massachusetts Manhattan, Kansas San Francisco, California Fort Collins, Colorado Chapel Hill, North Carolina $183,146,086 126,833,966 22,072,037 21,029,218 19,185,175 12,198,686 11,693,682 10,772,417 9,723,512 9,376,859 8,233,128 8,154,476 8,077,280 7,613,884 7,037,704 The President has strongly endorsed the increasing use of multilateral institutions in the conduct of U.S...
...taxpaper spent an average of $7.00 for foreign aid to Latin America...
...foreign policy, denouncing U.S...
...Failure to extend the Continuing Resolution will, within a short period, effectively halt work in all the above activities, thereby weakening the credibility of U.S...
...AID reached a new level on October 29, 1971 when the Senate temporarily defeated the foreign assistance legislation by a vote of 41 to 27...
...universities and a wide variety of U.S...
...Panamia...
...In FY 1971, $59,000,715 was obligated for new contracts and extensions of existing ones...
...172 19, 450 864...
...The remainder of the $7.00 worth of assistance to Latin America (now less than $.50) is given as "welfare and emergency relief" for earthquake victims and others suffering from similar disasters, as well as for direct budgetary support for propping-up the Haitian and Guatamala governments...
...economic aid programs...
...The Nixon Administration had refused to incorporate the specific demands of the growing liberal opposition...
...AID include a major initiative in Agriculture Development and new projects in Tourism, Housing and Manpower Training...
...1, 093 - - 118 - - 975 ------ ROCAP ------------- 44, 056 40, 000 260 ------ 3,796...
...multilateral assistance programs...
...Examples of 211D programs are the grants to Auburn University to develop its programs in fresh water fisheries, and the Land Tenure Center at the University of Wisconsin...
...4. On the imperialist purposes of USAID see Chapter 4 of Harry Magdoff, The Age of Imperialism (New York, 1969...
...Unfortunately, the real economic forces behind the liberal-expansionist and conservativeisolationist groups, as well as their shifting positions through the years, are largely unresearched...
...to provide P.L.480 Title II food for some 350,003 needy Bolivians, would stop...
...Effect of Failure to Extend the AID Program: Panama As of August 31, AID had 12 active loans with Panama with an undisbursed balance of $41.2 million...
...suppliers, U.S...
...Final passage only occurred after dollar allocations were sharply trimmed in long drawn-out battles...
...But to suggest that the United States immediately turn over all its development lending to international institutions ignores several realities...
...Capitalized interest only...
...commitments to Panama at a time when sensitive U.S.- Panama Canal Treaty negotiations are in progress...
...flag shipping...
...Then other Spaniards came and attacked the village...
...It will eliminate the Disaster Relief programs that have cared for victims of earthquakes, floods and famines like the great tragedy of today in India and East Pakistan...
...AID's Washington, D.C...
...This we are doing...
...AID Procurement of Commodities by State The Agency for International Development purchased $975,000,000 worth of commodities in fiscal year 1971, with 99 percent of it or $971,800,000 being spent in the United States...
...AID of confusing military and economic objectives by combining both assistance programs into one organization and using economic "development" funds solely for political/military objectives...
...John FI...
...In the third grade text book (published in 1969) there is a discussion of the arrival of the Spanish to Latin America...
...Brazil 88, 003 75, 024 . 12, 979 Chile ---------------- 18,014 15, 000 465 2, 549 Colombia...
...Share of U.S...
...assistance which has provided much of the leadership in the world in the direction of helping to solve the population problem, which places awresome strains on the world's resources...
...In essence, they saw U.S...
...Eighty-five universities provide on-campus training for foreign nationals through open-ended contracts under which students are funded as needed...
...exports, which was $43,116 million...
...Is it possible they are behind the move toward multilateralization, given the fact that they need to finance (subsidize) trade from their plants all over the world instead of just the United States...
...By February 2, 1972 some of the liberal opposition had recanted under pressure and a compromise bill, renewing U.S...
...1, 570 Honduras...
...Effect of Failure to Extend the AID Program: Bolivia To assess the seriousness of terminating AID funding on November 15, one must take into account recent developments in that troubled country...
...23, 061 Z54 Organization of American States_ 10, 246 .--- __._____ __________ 9 ,692 554 Oilher -23,------ 23, 629 5, 000 5, 260 ------ 13, 369 -----M -. CI 9 I 0 - Bl 0 r 0 e a e5 : : =: 4 : g2 .. 4 a i I I W o so o { II I2 I :5 I A@ .: Z r 05 N t Population programs under Title X of the Foreign Assistance Act...
...military aggression in Viet Nam...
...The Indians felt grateful to those who made them flee...
...19 Elimination of AID financing would have a significant adverse effect not only on U.S...
...2 and No...
...public information office...
...Hannah, AID Administrator, October 30,1971 The Senate's action of yesterday [Oct...
...The resulting outcry was enormous, expecially from businessmen and labor leaders threatened by the immediate elimination of U.S...
...For instance, how do the larger financial groups with their tremendous foreign capital investments presently view exports from the United States...
...the liberals in turn joined forces with some traditional isolationists to defeat the bill...
...The Spaniard, to show his gratitude, taught the Indians to read and write...
...The past decade has seen the rapid growth of the international lending institutions in the development field, all of them strongly supported by the United States.21 That the Administration's policy is meaningful can be seen in the FY 1972 budget requests...
...Exports $3,571 AID Financed $128.0 Iron and Steel Mill Products Pulp Paper and Paper Products Electric Machinery Apparatus Machine Tools Metal Working Machinery Motor Vehicles Parts Fertilizer Petroleum, Oil and Lubricants Rubber and Rubber Products Non-Ferrous Metals and Products Cooper Copper Products* Basic Textiles Railroad Equipment Rice All Commodities (including those not specifically listed above) All Commodities to the Developing Countries (including those not specifically listed above) *preliminary estimates Percentage 3.6% 1,259 1,026 4,181 375 3,733 206 462 321 900 (355) 326 89 321 40,446 12,371 106.0 25.0 58.0 13.6 89.6 98.0 39.0 13.0 40.6 (19.4) 17.0 1.7 3.3 975.6 975.6 8.4 2.4 1.4 3.6 2.4 47.6 8.4 4.0 4.5 (5.5) 5.2 1.9 1.0 2.4 7.9 885 1,132 3,028 406 3,836 176 505 330 749 (326) 322 127 281 43,116 13,596 145.0 27.6 62.0 5.0 89.5 44.0 22.0 10.0 54.9 (28.9) 27.5 20.0 22.6 971.8 971.8 16.4 2.4 2.0 1.2 2.3 25.0 4.4 3.0 7.3 (8.9) 8.5 15.7 8.0 2.3 7.1programs of the United States and other industrialized countries...
...The liberals accused the U.S...
...AID--Financed Commodities FY 1971 Dollar Value By State of Production * State Alabama(13) Alaska Arizona Arkansas California(2) Colorado Connecticut Delaware( 16) District of Columbia Florida Georgia(17) Hawaii Idaho Illinois(4) Indiana(14) Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana(ll) Maine Maryland(12) Massachusetts(15) Michigan(7) Minnesota Mississippi Amount State $ 16,305,583 Missouri 3,524,513 Nebraska 343,778 Nevada 4,954,181 New Hampshire 80,508,640 New Jersey( 6 ) 3,766,199 New Mexico 10,985,821 New York(l) 11,588,213 North Carolina(l9) 531,404 North Dakota 6,963,013 Ohio(8) 10,257,543 Oklahoma 92,750 Oregon 56,824 Pennsylvania(3) 73,541,642 Rhode Island 13,760,298 South Carolina(20) 4,902,240 South Dakota 724,410 Tennessee 5,306,139 Texas(5) 22,260,826 Utah 203,679 Vermont 20,572,073 Virginia(18) 12,054,228 Washington(9) 50,791.742 West Virginia 6,278,615 Wisconsin(10) 6,723,432 Wyoming TOTAL 'Rank of top 20 states appears in parentheses...
...shipping industry...
...7) Nov...
...11.836 8, 500 282 ---- 3, 054...
...Financed Under Foreign Assistance Act (FAA) PL 480 Programs (Millions of Long Tons) (1) Total U.S...
...This staff has more experience and competence in the difficult art of assisting underdeveloped countries than any agency in the world...
...exports to the developing countries in fiscal year 1971...
...Hugo Banzer...
...This weapon fires a 7.62 mm round with every fourth round being a tracer...
...Exports "Foreign aid" -- loans and grants extended by the Agency for International Development -- financed 7.1 percent of all U.S...
...AID directly benefits the economic well-being of their constituents...
...and further increases are already agreed for the next three years...
...One cannot build international institutions unilaterally...
...AID...
...We are also appending a few other relevant tables at the end which did not appear in this document...
...The research contracts are concentrated on problems of agriculture, population and education and have a cumulative value of $15,056,206...
...See Frank Browning and Banning Garrett, "The New Opium War," Ramparts (May, 1971) pp...
...Paraguay . 7, 126 4, 625 332 ---- 2, 169 ------ Fervu - - 11, 342 - - 113...
...These grants are for strengthening university competence in critical problems of the developing countries...
...While the original "tied-aid" provision for this program was relaxed so goods produced in Latin America could be purchased with the money, in fact most of the needed goods are still only available in the United States...
...Second, turning over our funds to these institutions would instantly destroy their international character...
...In FY 1970 the comparable figures were $675 million for bilateral and $460 million for international financial institutions...
...foreign policy as a product of narrow Cold War anti-communist goals that converted the United States' true "humanitarian" interest in "development" and "democracy" into expedient support for corrupt, opportunistic regimes that oppress the people and overcommit the United States to dubious ventures beyond the real national interest Logically this attack began to focus on foreign assistance programs run by the U.S...
...This is not true...
...and the need to restore Bolivian confidence in their government's ability to deal with these major economic and political problems...
...AID's one billion' dollar subsidy programs...
...Agency for International Development, The Foreign Assistance Program: Annual Report to the Congress for Fiscal Year 1970 (Washington, D.C...
...3 The conflict between those opposing and favoring U.S...
...It will cut off funds for assisting other countries to control the growth and distribution of narcotics, a problem which is corroding the vitality of our country.* It will stop the flow of funds to UNICEF in its worldwide effort to feed children and for the international development assistance programs of the UN through the UNDP and other specialized agencies...
...vices and cost many Americans their jobs...
...The Inter-American Development Bank is fully occupied with the administration of the increases in resources agreed in 1970...
...3.829 7, 400 Uruguay --------- _ - 16, 922 15, 400 ---------------- 1, 52'2 ----- Venezuela...
...taxes and wage rates...
...AID financed exports in fiscal 1971 totaled $971.8 million -- 2.3 percent of the value-of all U.S...
...5, 454 2, 700 499 2, 25 - Jamaica ------------- 765 - - 420 - - 345...
...Though we are only printing excerpts, the full document, entitled "Fact Sheets on Selected Aspects of U.S...
...In addition to the political and economic consequences cited above, the cessation of AID funding on November 15 would have the following results: 1. Implementation of approved loans: Continued disbursement and implementation of other approved loans (Roads -- $9.0 million...
...About half (52 percent) of that $7.00 (or $3.60) was spent for military and police aid referred to as "security assist- ance...
...The nature of these institutions requires that we move in concert with others to increase their resources...
...The Indians, in turn, were grateful to serve him...
...AID technical assistance...
...The training program of approximately 142 Panamanian participants would be adversely affected...
...Although misrepresenting the program's real intentions, it contains some important statistics on the distribution of AID funds inside the United States...
...The new government faced several immediate problems: serious unemployment...
...Finally, it is our intention to move over the next years to enable the international lending agencies to expand their activities, to shift our bilateral lending to these agencies, but to do this as the capacities of the banks permit and as our fellow donors agree with us...
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