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...past 23 years 550 business, political and educational leaders from 86 foreign countries have studied American life and thought firsthand, for up to five months, under the privately financed Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship program. Of the 280 who responded to a recent survey, more than half rejected the U.S. system of constitutional democracy as a model for their countries. Nearly two-thirds said the U.S. social-welfare system is inadequate. Fully 85% thought Americans were unsympathetic to foreign revolutionary governments. More than half scorned U.S. trade policy and foreign investment as being motivated chiefly by self-interest. A slight majority rated...
...fact that with the exception of John Kennedy, every President of this century since Taft was born or reared in a small community. Which leads one to wonder why, in our age of ultimate urbanization, we end up with men who never had firsthand experience living right down in the crowded center of Megalopolis...
...with the racist South African regime bears special looking into. Black organizations like the now clearly marxist African Liberation Support Committee (ALSC) have begun to take a more prodding look at the facts beyond what is presented in the press. ALSC has sent representatives to Angola to bring back firsthand accounts to the black community of what is really going on. Their reports are at total variance with the sophisticated information networks of the American liberal and pro-Soviet support groups in America, who have not only glorified MPLA but also go to great lengths to discredit UNITA. ALSC...
When President Ford returned from Asia last week, he invited G.O.P. congressional leaders to the White House for some early-morning coffee and firsthand reports on his travels. But the 22 top Republicans who gathered round the huge mahogany table in the Cabinet Room were not eager to hear about the President's chat with China's Mao Tse-tung (see story page 26). Nor was the Pacific Doctrine, which Ford enunciated in Hawaii, their main interest, even though it was a good restatement of U.S. policy and may well be helpful in reassuring Asian allies after...
...corner of Spain, southwest of Seville, is the Coto de Doñana habitat for rare and endangered species: the imperial and short-toed eagles, great bustard, bee eater, azure-winged magpie and, in migration at least, the great flamingo. Those who want to view this ornithological paradise firsthand should be aware of the customary protocol: visitors must get permits from the director of the local biological station to feast their eyes on its plumed riches. This sumptuous pictorial tour cannot compare with a real excursion; on the other hand, it is about one-hundredth the price-and almost...