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...Frank Moore (who is in charge Of congressional relations) enter the President's office at 9:45. They discuss the Administration's foreign aid request. "We're going to lose Africa," Carter says to Moore, "if we don't do something to help those poorer countries." Moore is instructed to tell Congress that "we've got to have some way to meet the challenge." On the subject of congressional recalcitrance over the $50 tax rebate, Moore tells the President: "[Senate Majority Leader Robert] Byrd called in four people yesterday to have lunch with them...
...wonder that this relationship is a very sensitive one. Mexico feels any hardening of policies severely. Or, as Canada's Premier Trudeau described it, it is like having a honeymoon with an elephant: the slightest change in position is enough to crush the poorer country. And it was due to Mexico's past policies that the elephant turned just enough to make its weight felt...
...Massachusetts Mental Health Center, makes an insightful point in an op-ed piece in last Sunday's New York Times. Poussaint argues that there is often as large an identification gap between members of the American black bourgeoisie, blacks (like Young) who have "made it," and the mass of poorer blacks, as there is between these poor blacks and most white politicians, professionals and businessmen...
...matter how the problem is tackled bureaucratically, the mated evils of overpopulation and hunger need to be considered on two levels. In the short-term, the United States and the other developed countries can and need to help check famine and slow starvation. For now the poorer nations will have to depend on the developed world, particularly the United States and Canada, for food to save their starving. In a speech given in 1975, Morris Udall said, "Together with Canada, we control a larger share of the world's exportable grain than the Middle East does...
...with Dick and Jane. The true criminals of the film, they probably discovered this script sitting at the bottom of the television movie rejects pile. But, after all, Kotcheff proves that crime pays, as each person in his audience leaves the theatre three dollars and fifty cents poorer...