Word: americans
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...pledged to channel more U.S. development funds through multilateral agencies, to "untie" aid funds that up to now had to be spent in the U.S., and to accept the existence of military governments without subjecting them to moral judgments. He also raised the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs to Under Secretary to coordinate U.S. Government programs. The Rockefeller report, which is being made public this week, goes considerably beyond these measures...
...purposes in the U.S. having nothing to do with the aspirations and interests of its neighbors." Rockefeller feels that the U.S. should press for increased trade within the hemisphere. Doubling present volume by 1976 would be "realistic" but attainable only by revising U.S. quotas and tariffs on such Latin American exports as coffee, sugar and meat. Equally important is the easing of cumbersome aid restrictions. Along with loosing "tied" aid dollars, a step already ordered by Nixon, the U.S. should seek the suspension or modification of congressional amendments that threaten to cut aid to nations that expropriate U.S. private investment...
...report notes that Latin American nations spend a smaller percentage of their gross national products on defense than any other area of the world except Africa south of the Sahara. It recommends that the U.S. reverse the recent trend to reduce its security assistance. "At the moment there is only one Castro among the 26 nations of the hemisphere; there can well be more in the future," says Rockefeller. Moreover, the U.S. should not turn down requests from more advanced hemisphere nations for modern military equipment. "Realistically," he explains, "it will be purchased from other sources, East or West...
...fertile soil is being created for those who hope to exploit the southern continent's troubles. In the near future, the report predicts, Latin America will be beset by growing instability and an increased tendency to seek radical and authoritarian solutions. Rockefeller also warns that vociferous Latin American nationalism finds a tempting, natural target in the U.S., "since it looms so large in the lives of other nations." Against a backdrop of danger, the report stresses that the U.S. in its own self-interest must reaffirm its old, and unfortunately unfulfilled, goal of making the hemisphere a better place...
...also hard to imagine a city that is great only during the day. If too many of its occupants retreat to the suburbs to eat and sleep each evening, the place is, in fact, not so much a city as a collection of buildings-the unhappy truth about most American cities...