Word: foreign-aid
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...Need of a Policy. In anger and frustration, 22 Senators, 21 of them Democrats, fired off a telegram to the President asking him to make an example of the Dominican military by recalling all U.S. diplomatic, military-and foreign-aid personnel. After a lengthy series of meetings, Secretary of State Dean Rusk recalled all U.S. economic and military-aid personnel from both the Dominican Republic and Honduras...
...raise production efficiency, improving our ability to compete in world markets," coupled with "a clear goal of a balanced cash budget as soon as possible." He would soften the drain caused by foreign aid by making sure that aid "does not simply pour more dollars into nations which already have balance-of-payments surpluses" and by urging "our European allies to assume a larger share of the foreign-aid program...
...POAU will lobby for foreign-aid controls that would prevent the disbursement of U.S. funds to religious institutions in Latin America. In Girardot, Colombia, James Goff, a Presbyterian missionary, charged that the child of one Protestant was forbidden entrance to a local school built by Alliance for Progress funds and run by Catholic nuns...
...Syrian Communist Party-once one of the Middle East's strongest-is still banned, along with all other political parties. But the Russians themselves are working hard to increase their influence. The main tool is a lavish foreign-aid program, an estimated $500 million Soviet investment split between military aid (MIGs, tanks, rifles) and such projects as the first railroad linking Syria's Mediterranean port of Latakia with the Jezire agriculture district of the northeast. The Soviet embassy, largest in Damascus, is headquarters for a community that includes a 200-man military mission and 300 technicians...
President Kennedy, like his predecessor, sometimes speaks of a need for "sacrifices"-but the only actual sacrifice demanded of most Americans these days is that they pay their taxes. Thinking of John Glenn and his fellow astronauts, of U.S. helicopter pilots in South VietNam, of Peace Corps volunteers and foreign-aid technicians in remote parts of the world, of Strategic Air Command flyers on alert, the stay-at-home taxpayer making out a check to the Internal Revenue Service this week could console himself with the thought that he, too, was doing his part: they also serve who only...