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...things Ford asked of Congress are diametrically opposite to what Vietnam needs, and his reasoning directly contradicted the American experience in Southeast Asia. The "vast human tragedy" that he said has "befallen Vietnam" is largely the result of twenty years of American aid that propped up unpopular governments, and of direct military intervention to keep them in power. The "enormous sacrifices" in American "blood, dedication and treasure" he spoke of are insignificant in comparison with the courage and suffering of the Vietnamese people and the National Liberation Front, who have continued to fight against enormous odds since long before...
Lake of Wine. Next week the Common Market agriculture ministers will meet to discuss ways of siphoning off the surplus wine that now threatens to engulf all Southern Europe. One solution is to distill it into alcohol for industrial purposes-an expensive process that would require unpopular subsidies by all Common Market nations. Another proposal: sell it to the Soviet Union, which is willing to buy up to 26.4 million gal. at rock-bottom prices. A third solution: give some of the excess to soldiers, hospital patients and inmates of old folks' homes. British Labor Party M.P. Neil Kinnock...
...closed mind of President Ford, a knee-jerk anti-considering, and his advisers. The Ford administration's position seems to be a reactive one not well thought-out or borne out by past experience. It involves urging huge amounts of military aid for a government that has been consistently unpopular corrupt and suppressive of the basic freedom of its citizens and that has been consistently unable to hold any power in times when it has not been propped up by millions of dollars from America. American military aid has always brought suppression and violence to the people of Vietnam...
Ruemelin knows that if there are no internship coordinators, there may not be anyone to lobby for internship program funds. But he still cannot get definite answers about programs' futures because. "It's a very unpopular thing for someone to say we won't do a program...
...Communist leaders are painfully aware of the possible consequences of the price increases. Of the five uprisings that have shaken Eastern Europe since 1953, three stemmed directly from unpopular economic measures. Once again, Eastern European workers will be asked to make sacrifices. The increased fuel costs are bound to retard the growth of Eastern Europe's fertilizer, petrochemical and synthetic textile industries, and limit supplies of some consumer goods. Those goods will have to be sold to the Soviet Union to raise rubles, but Moscow is insisting on terms of trade that are likely to anger Eastern Europeans. Though...