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...family. But Miss Woods manages to keep up a life of her own as well. Her $36,000 salary as Executive Assistant and Personal Secretary to the President allows her to live in an expensive co-op in the Watergate apartment complex...
...FENACOAC federation staffers, however, have a paternalistic attitude toward local cooperatives; for instance, they make decisions which affect the co-op without consulting them. Several months ago, a Peace Corps volunteer noticed that cooperatives had many similar complaints against the federation and organized a meeting of co-op leaders in the area to exchange ideas. He emphasized to the federation manager that local leaders had met because of an interest in improving the federation, not to withdraw support...
Peace Corps volunteers in FENACOAC are not leaders but temporary advisers to the local co-ops. Many of them have said that their goal is to train Guatemalans to replace themselves. A volunteer usually aids or trains the managers of four or five cooperatives in managing the accounts, purchasing agricultural inputs, and applying for loans. The Board of Directors remain the co-op's decision-making body...
...volunteer in an apple producing area is now advising a co-op in setting up an apple butter factory and making connections with food-chain distributors. This cooperative will offer higher prices for apples to local farmers than the middlemen--the truckers who buy apples to resell for higher prices in Guatemala City. The co-op assembly decided to take the risk and borrow the money to invest in the factory, on the condition that the volunteer would extend his stay another two years, until the factory is established...
...very next day the dairymen finally had an audience with the man who was, among other things, the nation's most notorious cottage cheese customer. Nixon and other Administration officials met with a dozen leaders of the three co-ops to discuss price supports. Later, the President held a follow-up meeting with Hardin, Connally and George Shultz, then director of the Office of Management and Budget, to discuss the milkmen's arguments. That evening, according to Ervin committee testimony, Connally met yet again with the co-op executives at a private home in Washington to go over...