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Various New Frontiersmen, including Chester Bowles and David Bell, have also argued for sterner selectivity in the distribution of aid funds. Says Bell, the Administration's new foreign aid boss: "It would be a mistake for the U.S. to try to engage in anything like a worldwide welfare program. What we are trying to do is assist the people of these countries to get in the position where they can solve their own problems." Last month President Kennedy's special Committee to Strengthen the Security of the Free World, headed by retired General Lucius D. Clay, produced...
...campaign contention that he was a "citizen's candidate." Right after his inauguration last January, he established "Citizen's Thursdays," an open-door invitation to anybody who has anything whatever to say to him, provided the visitor says it within five minutes-a timer rings a bell to mark the close of each interview...
...disappointments for the Conservatives included the defeat of Cabinet Ministers Fleming, Sevigny, Bell, and Fairclough, and that of the president of the Progressive-Conservative party, Egan Chambers. At 11:30 p.m. Minister Howard Green was also behind in his Vancouver quadra riding in British Columbia...
...formal letter to U.S. Aid Chief David Bell, Dantas listed eleven separate steps that his government will take to curb the ruinous inflation that has lowered the value of Brazil's cruzeiro by 78% in the past five years alone. Among them: tighter controls on government spending in order to cut Brazil's treasury deficit, less new currency to be printed, some much-needed overhauling of money-losing state-owned enterprises, a serious attempt at tax reform and improved tax collection, curbs on coffee overproduction, expansion of other exports (iron ore, meat, manufactures), encouragement of private investment from...
...Kennedy last December asked retired General Lucius D. Clay to head up a ten-man committee to re-examine foreign aid policies. Last week the Clay group, both in a 22-page report to Kennedy and in a longer, more detailed series of recommendations to Foreign Aid Director David Bell, made known its findings. Clay's committee offered no bold new approaches to foreign aid-but it did take a hard look at the old avenues...