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With that assurance, President Oren Lee Staley of the militant National Farmers Organization last week announced what everyone in the building had come to cheer-a strike against food processors to force higher prices for many farm products. "This is a battle for survival of family-type agriculture," said Staley...
American advisors finally came to grips this fall with the fact of Diem's despotism and his general unpopularity. As a result of missions to survey the situation, Stanford economist Eugene Staley and presidential advisor General Maxwell Taylor strongly recommended political and social reforms as well as increased military assistance. But at this first serious suggestion of reform the government-controlled newspapers (whose front pages are often totally blank to indicate censorship) came out with as scathing an indictment of American "interference" as could ever be heard in a Communist press...
...peasants away from their fields just at harvest time, put them to work at forced labor to build the new agrovilles. To compound the peasants' anger, it frequently turned out that there was not enough room for them in the agrovilles that they had been forced to build. But Staley concluded that the basic idea was good, hopes the U.S. will finance the construction of at least another 100 in the next twelve months...
...Dinh Diem that the U.S., though it had retreated in Laos, could be depended on to help South Viet Nam defend its freedom. In Washington, a special Viet Nam task force was set up in the State Department. Last week a committee headed by Stanford Research Institute Economist Eugene Staley, back from a four-week study of South Viet Nam, submitted an inch-thick secret report to President Kennedy containing a detailed set of recommendations on just what needs to be done to buttress and shore up South Viet Nam for the imminent battle. Most immediate was a recommendation...
...Starts. In the past Diem has stubbornly refused to accept U.S. advice in dealing with his countrymen. But the lesson of Laos and the new urgency of the U.S. Administration seem to have changed him. Every recommendation in the Staley report has already received his concurrence in advance...