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...Organization of American States had sent investigating teams twice to Haiti, yet many nations were loath to impose sanctions. Intervention is a nasty word in Latin America, and memories of the Marine occupation of Haiti from 1915-34 are still fresh. In Washington Senator J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, left a State Department briefing on Haiti, fuming at the OAS's "apathy" and lack of "determination." Costa Rica's Gonzalo J. Facio, chairman of the OAS Council, could only answer: "The organization has no power to take action when there...
...President took over some of her social chores. More than 1,000 music pupils and high school, students swarmed onto the newly planted South Lawn to hear the Central Kentucky Youth Symphony Orchestra performing at one of Jackie's cultural programs. At another garden party for 100 foreign Fulbright scholars, the President was upstaged by a 17-month-old Arab girl, who cavorted around him and cried "Mommie, mom-mie," while Kennedy saluted "some of the brightest minds from abroad." Said the President, manfully ignoring the fact that some of his new flower beds had taken a beating from...
...Senator Fulbright will give his final lecture, on "The American Agenda," tonight at 8.30 p.m., In Tufts university's Cohen Auditorium...
...Foreign Aid. In order to "help create an environment in which free societies can survive and flourish," the various countries of the Atlantic community should unify their aid programs. Fulbright saw two ways this could be done, either through the International development Agency of the World bank, or through the Development Assistance committee of the Organization for economic Cooperation and development...
...Defense. Fulbright had stated in the beginning of his speech the reason why he felt Atlantic defense cooperation to be essential. He returned to the subject to assert that worry over control of nuclear arms was far less important than the development of a "solid consensus on nuclear strategy. "He said that unified strategy planning was "politically feasible," and could be achieved with only a small modification of the NATO Council...