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...certain sense correct. It's misdirected critiscism to call even Unheavenly City a racist book. In the book Banfield chides massive welfare spending programs as false cures of urban ills and proposes an ideology to back up Daniel Patrick Moynihan's theory of "benign neglect" towards racial problems...
...have heard your voices. We embrace your hopes. We will join your efforts." With those words, written by U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger but delivered to the United Nation's Seventh Special Session last week by U.S. Ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan, Washington gave its answer to the share-the-wealth demands of the world's poor. In so doing, it at least temporarily forestalled anticipated bitter clashes between developing countries of the Third World and the rich industrialized West at the session...
...theme of the 12,000-word, 105-minute statement read by Moynihan was that the U.S. is not only prepared to discuss the demands of the developing states but also has specific and detailed ideas for meeting them. The long list of U.S. proposals−if backed and funded by all the industrial and oil-rich nations−could equal the Marshall Plan in impact. As forecast (TIME, Sept. 8), the speech avoided flashy or hostile rhetoric. It warned that there are "no panaceas" and stressed a "program of practical steps." Among them...
Kissinger had been scheduled to speak himself, but was detained by the negotiations in the Middle East. Instead of delaying the speech, he had Moynihan take his place on the U.N.'s marble podium. Thus, there was no time for Third World delegates to launch the automatic barrage of anti-American complaints. With unusual attentiveness, the packed General Assembly listened to Moynihan; the silence was broken only by the rustling of paper as delegates, in unison, turned pages of copies of the text placed by the U.S. mission at every desk...
...aims: dividing the Third World. Clearly, the U.S. wanted to distinguish the goals and needs of the truly poor nations from those of suddenly prosperous oil-producing states. There were at least half a dozen critical references to the OPEC cartel in the text. For example, Moynihan reminded the U.N. delegates that world economic stability requires sustained growth in the industrial countries, which, in turn, need "reliable supplies of energy, raw materials and other products at a fair price." The U.S. then charged that the quadrupling of oil prices has inflicted "the most devastating blow to economic development in this...