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While the appropriation cut will seriously endanger any such plan, there is yet another damaging feature of the subcommittee's action--the proviso that prevents rent supplement funds from going to communities lacking community development projects. This proviso, in effect, will make the envisioned suburban dispersion impossible or ineffective. Suburban communities could decide against long-range planning altogether or determine locations of projects which would be rent-subsidized, thus creating new ghettos...
This will not be easy. For one thing, the rice-eating people of Kerala stubbornly refuse to supplement their diet with other grain. Thus President Johnson's announcement last week authorizing shipment of 3,000,000 tons of wheat and maize to replenish India's depleted food supplies will be a boon to the nation, but will not necessarily keep the rioters off the streets in Kerala...
Most Nieman Fellows, then, supplement their specialized seminars with equally specialized independent study. There are several reasons for this...
Extra Rations. Besides attacking Vinh Hoa, the trainees learn to set up and patrol a defense perimeter, detect enemy booby traps and set out their own, establish listening posts; they spend 29 hours practicing night defense and are taught to catch wild animals to supplement their C rations. They also see a full-size Viet Cong prisoner stockade, including a solitary-confinement pit, and learn how to evade their captors' questions. Even at night, G.I.s in the main camp are liable to be attacked by "terrorists" from Vinh Hoa. Above all, they are taught to be on the alert...
...France, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Sweden, the U.S.), Treasury Under Secretary Frederick L. Deming intends to outline a plan conceived in part by his predecessor, Robert Roosa, who is now a partner of Brown Bros. Harriman. It proposes establishment of the cru-for collective reserve unit-which would supplement reserves of dollars and pounds in international payments. The U.S. idea is that movements of the cru would be handled by the International Monetary Fund, which already oversees national financial situations through the quotas, or drawing accounts, that countries use to cover financial difficulties...