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...American basing rights in the Azores. What we did was to offer the loan of a research vessel, a grant of $1,000,000 for education, $5,000,000 in nonmilitary surplus equipment, and PL-480 credits of $30 million for the export of surplus agricultural commodities. Export-Import Bank financing may also be available. The $400 million figure frequently mentioned in this connection relates only to projects under consideration by the Portuguese, no commitment having been made by the U.S. as to amount. "Military supplies" are nowhere included in the assistance package...
...keep recommending things he does not approve of. Two years ago, he rejected the findings of the National Commission on Obscenity and Pornography (named by President Johnson), which concluded that pornographic materials were not eroding the nation's morality. A Nixon-named commission made the proposal that oil import quotas be increased; the President picked another commission that opted for the status quo. Now he has dismissed a report on marijuana and drug abuse...
...When a Government task force recommended elimination of the quotas on oil imports two years ago, the domestic oil industry, which stood to lose billions of dollars, was up in arms. Anticipating the repercussions among oil-rich G.O.P. campaign contributors, the President ordered a new "study" of oil-import quotas. Not surprisingly, the second commission disagreed completely with its predecessor and recommended the retention of the tariffs. Though not officially involved, Flanigan sat in on so many of the second task force's deliberations that one participant remarked, "I thought he was a member." Pointedly, it was Non-Member...
This is not to say that there is some kind of active collusion among the press to warp the import of the news but that the day-to-day close contact between the top analysts of The Washington Post, the L.A. Times, the Globe, The New York Times and The St. Louis Post Dispatch should have a self-reinforcing effect on the perspective of the news analysis which differs from an individual that's-the-way-I-see-it approach...
...endeavor to import significant bluesmen from the hinterlands has been the loving labor of the Boston Blues. Society, a non-profit organization of dedicated blues connoisseurs. In collaboration with WHRB, they have scheduled a series of superb concerts here at Harvard; with the exception of the Hound Dog Taylor concert at Winthrop House, however, these events have been curiously ignored by Harvard students. If you've been waiting for the right opportunity to investigate these affairs, you should not ignore the Otis Rush concert in the Leverett House dining room at 8:30 pm this Sunday. Best known...