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What to do with it all? AID officials will divert some of the goods to nations that the U.S. is still assisting, not to expand programs but to fill existing commitments. Foodstuffs, mainly rice, wheat and corn, will go primarily to Bangladesh, India and perhaps Egypt. But industrial goods pose a much tougher problem. They were intended for the sophisticated economic base that the U.S. wanted to build in South Viet Nam until the very end. (The Mayaguez, for instance, was unloading 3,000 tons of industrial goods-just what is still not clear-when it hastily had to leave...
...issue of political asylum and not humanitarian aid. Forced repatriation of Vietnamese refugees is not the issue, and neither is the competence of the U.S. to act as a judicial body evaluating the merits of individual Vietnamese. The real problem is whether or not the U.S. will divert its humanitarian efforts away from what should be their real focus--the reconstruction of the land we ravaged and the people we tore apart--to the comforting of the defeated lieutenants who carried out our policies. That would only compound our already grievous record of injury to the Vietnamese people...
...loss of port facilities in Greece and Turkey also means that the Sixth Fleet has fewer "bingo fields," airstrips ashore to which carrier planes can divert in emergencies or bad weather. In addition, the new political situation creates morale problems for seamen, who will be forced to spend more and more time aboard ship without the chance of seeing their families and without liberty in the foreign ports...
...cannot divert profit from private organizations for something that is the taxpayers' responsibility," he said...
...came up extensively at the meeting--have little to fear from the above cast of characters. These residents have always felt that Moulton and Daly have had little to do with the behind-the-scenes plotting for the Agassiz area and the bizarre, expensive and widely unpopular plan to divert the Red Line down Mt. Auburn St. to Brattle St. They realize that it is not just Daly or Moulton or, for that matter. Harold Goyette, director of the Planning Office, who pushed for a Red Line extension to the MBTA subway yard that would make it even more attractive...