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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
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Subject: Re: Re: Experimentation and Danger
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Date: Mon, 13-Jan-86 19:39:56 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 13 19:39:56 1986
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>What is most striking is the futility of Western/Eastern help to the
>majority of the countries of the thirld world.  To be an attractive
>ally, US should be able to help in the areas of real need, like
>
>a.  controlling the population in a non-totalitarian manner;
>b.  increasing the agricultural production in a way which would
>    utilize local resource and be not overly dependent on imported
>    machines, fertilizers, chemicals etc, one could think about
>    improving local staple crops, increasing productivity of rural
>    labor with minimal capital expenditures, etc.
>c.  introducing new sources of energy, like small hydro, wind, fuel
>    from plants etc;
>d.  increasing internal sector of the economy (as opposed to export-
>    - import oriented, export being dependent on few raw commodities;
>e.  improving trnsportation network (the waterways and railroad of
>    our ally, Zaire, are in worse shape than during colonial times);
>f.  etc.
>
>Once US and our friends (like French) will be able to provide genuine
>help (which may even cost less than the current innefective aid),
>government of all sorts will flock to participate.  Covert aid for
>Savimbi, overt aid, no aid, none of these provides any clue about
>the state of those nations (like Angola) in ten years from now.
>
>piotr berman

Wasn't all that what the US Peace Corps was about?  And it worked
beautifully while it was allowed to.  It should be reinstated, using
the money now going into destabilizing Nicaragua.  We would get a whole
host of Central American (and other) allies, instead of driving one
country after another into the Russian camp.
-- 

Martin Taylor
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