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...RAUL WINSTON MCCRACKEN is a leading figure in America's new elite: the activist intellectuals, who simultaneously serve universities, corporations and Government. In all three of these areas, he helps to make high policy. He is, variously: 1) a full professor at the University of Michigan, 2) a board member of half a dozen companies and consultant to many other firms, 3) the author of countless economic monographs and books, 4) an adviser to government officials. Still, when Richard Nixon last week named him to the position of the chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers...
Political infighting over the secretary generalship has been ugly and high-pressured, often resorting to strong-arm political threats. Just last Thursday one of Ritter's partisans in the secretariat, Luis Raul Betances, a Dominican, was fired after another angry Dominican delegates reported that Raul promised to have him removed if he did not change his vote from Falcon to Ritter...
...Raul's threats succeeded, Ritter's supporters would have been able to go into the last ballot only one vote short of a majority. They would have been in a strong position to pressure the rest of the member-states into line. But Raul failed, and the scandal has probably killed Ritter's chances...
Sensing that he might have trouble over oil with Venezuela's Raul Leoni, Johnson jumped into his Cadillac and went calling. He listened for 75 minutes as Leoni complained about how the U.S. program against air pollution might affect exports of Venezuelan oil because much of the oil is low-grade and has a high sulfur content, which is a prime pollutant. Johnson told Leoni that U.S. scientists were experimenting with refining methods that would reduce sulfur content and that any discoveries would be passed on to Venezuela. Back at Beaulieu, Johnson heard Peru's visionary Fernando Belaunde...
...longer term, Balogh believes that many underdeveloped nations are so backward and Balkanized that their best hope lies in banding into regional common markets, such as the Latin American Free Trade Association conceived by his ally, Argentina's Raul Prebisch. Richer nations should not only greatly increase their foreign aid, but also channel it through an international organization and budget it on a long-term basis. To accomplish this, the world needs a major reform of its monetary system so that generous nations-notably the U.S.-would not be penalized by balance-of-payments deficits as a result...