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...Chief Gilligan goes...
...Maybe he talked too loud." That was one explanation in Washington for the sudden resignation last week of John Gilligan as the administrator of the Agency for International Development. A former Congressman and Governor of Ohio from 1970 to 1974, Gilligan clashed with top Administration officials over the policies of the bureaucracy that in fiscal 1978 dispensed $1.7 billion in foreign aid. In fact, the resignation may have been forced by his boss, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance...
...Gilligan became controversial almost from the day he arrived at AID two years ago. After surveying his staff, he bluntly declared that too many of them were "overage, overgrade and over here." His last complaint reflected his conviction that foreign aid administrators should be based in the countries being served...
...While Gilligan's sweeping managerial style won some praise in Congress, it undermined morale at AID. When he asked subordinates to anonymously grade his performance last year, 80% rated him "unsatisfactory." He antagonized the Departments of State, Treasury and Agriculture by stubbornly advocating that some of their foreign assistance activities be handed over, along with the Peace Corps, to a new superagency that he presumably would head. Nor could Vance have appreciated Gilligan's criticisms of the $2 billion in economic aid the U.S. now gives Israel and Egypt, 25.6% of the entire economic foreign assistance program...
That the Crimson should open this contest by exhibiting signs of sluggishness came as a surprise only to those who had been vacationing at Gilligan's Island the week before. Seven days previous in Providence, after all, Harvard had knocked the league's up-and-coming power, Brown, out of championship contention. The 45-26 thrashing was made doubly embarrassing by the fact ABC had beamed the mismatch all across the cast coast...