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...flying visit to the Plain of Jars, Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma managed to arrange a shaky cease-fire between the Pathet Lao and Kong Le's neutralists. Though sporadic artillery duels still pockmarked the plain, there were no outright Red attacks, and the neutralists lost no new territory. But hostilities threatened to erupt from another quarter. Around the perimeter of the plain, right-wing General Phoumi Nosavan was reinforcing his positions, and in the foothills behind the Pathet Lao lines, tough, well-armed Meo tribesmen, who have no love for the Reds, posed a dangerous threat to Communist supply...
...Williams Bill would provide $750 million in loans and, where necessary, outright grants, for mass transit projects: to build new railroad and subway lines, to buy new buses and rolling stock, to build stations and parking lots and to improve existing facilities. Any viable system, public or private, might receive aid, although the government could not pay directly for more than two-thirds of all costs...
...apply stricter standards of selectivity and self-help in aiding developing countries." As an example of progress, he said that only 20 nations now get 80% of all development aid and that 60% of it is laid out in the form of repayable loans rather than outright grants. Aid, he said, must be used "as a catalyst for progress and not as a handout...
...remains hopeful, regarding Bosch more with benevolent indulgence than outright doubt. At his inauguration, Vice President Lyndon Johnson was on hand to affirm U.S. support of the new government. As one top Administration official said last week in Washington: "He's a good man, but he's been out of touch with his country too long. I think he will mellow in office." Bosch feels that his crit ics will be the ones to mellow. "At the dawn of democracy," he preached in his inaugural address, "the fears of some are very great. But the confidence...
...three days, the exterminators had killed about 6,500 rats outright, and expected another 3,000 to die later as the poison took effect. But each female rat can theoretically produce about 70 offspring every year. Concluded one sanitation official: "What we really need is the Pied Piper of Hamelin...