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  • modifying the GATT · so as to make accession by Communist countries more meaningful in trade terms? Present Situation The GATT is an instrument to assure multilateral and non-discrimina­ tory trade among countries with predominantly free-market economies
  • designed to cope with pressing economic problems; and (4) progress in reassociation with the West. Our basic purpose in building bridges to East Europe is to facili­ tate and sustain these changes. We seek thereby progress toward the realization of our
  • the increasing educational level of the Soviet population. Moreover, the contacts with the free world already established have by now generated vested interests in their continuance. Limitations on Soviet Evolution. While there are many hopeful aspects
  • can do for the time being, unless you feel the matter is worth the President's attention • Perkins is not pressing for this, and only you will know whether it might be a wise thing to do. Samuel E" Belk By ...........-CO~tFIDEf~TIAL v (').S H
  • in discouraging specific countries and areas from acquiring nuclear weapons, including: (a) (b) (c) (d) India Japan Israel Latin America, Afric~, and the Middle East where nuclear free zones may be feasible. 888KEI -4­ J. Test Ban Three alternative
  • . Tanks: Israel wants · tanks to assure continuance of its military superiority over the Arabs. It wants U.S. tanks to symbolize a closer U.S.-Israeli military association. It also hopes to get these free, or .very cheaply. As ·pointed out _in comments
  • . 6. The counter audio survey has found numerous places where there is accoustical leak.age fran sensitive offices. M:r. Moyers' office could Convers.a tions in be heard through the wall into· a press area and through an old sink pipe down
  • , and is feasible only if combined with early use or nuclear weapons. Secretary McNamara's conclusion is that the decision to redeploy should be made now and implemented over the next lB months. He believes that freeing a division from its static commitment in Korea
  • language trainingp dependents must in many cases ride free in programs established primarily for employed personnel 9 takin.g the leavings of unoccupied instructor time or· space availabl e in employee class ~B 9 a fact which tends to restrict both
  • level, but vould be free to designate repreaentative1 at eh• Ambassadorial level it they 4eaired. The purpose of the meeting would bei a) to take stock, diacuas and define the substantive issues involved; b) to auggest approaches toward
  • years, which would, because of lags in converting raw materials into end products, 9-ECRB'f' SBCRJ31f 7 still yield production for up to a third year of conflict and (2) that most free world nations be regarded as available sources of supply
  • of carrying television to population centers in the eastern and northern regions of the USSR. 6. In early 1966, authorities in Moscow disclosed through the press that central TV coverage of the . fiftieth anniversary would be extended to the more remote
  • for lingering echoes in the Nationalist press. ·Alternate Sites As the result of actions begun over a year ago, NASA and DOD would be prepared, if necessary, to move all space tracking operations from South Africa to alternate sites (principally Malagasy, Spain
  • to U•.s. underground nuclear explosions should be picked up outside our territorial limits (Tab B). !'he Ta~s press _release and related cable from .MOscow cemmenting on the accidental venting of one of our recent Nevada tests (Tab P) show
  • to insure that incentives for service in Vietnam are included in the Foreign Assistance Act. They are also pressing the Department of Labor to have Bureau of Employment Compensation legislation liberalized with respect to death benefits. I have asked 0 1
  • and the United States press -­ and in certain ways, among the Micronesians. 2. Despite a lack of serious concern for the area until quite recently, Micronesia is said to be essential to the United States for security reasons. We cannot give the area up, yet
  • covers the significant facets of American life. This informational program exposes the foreign trainee to u.s. governmental institutions, our judicial system, the role -SiCiiT:i:T -10- the role of political parties, our free press and communications
  • , but the fact that our use of it is free of the restraints imposed by the existence of another political authorityo Yet, -although we have exclusive administrative authority, our effective control ia in fact conditioned both by tbe domestic aftuation
  • that would increase the cohesion of NATO and the North.Atlantic community. These should embrace two kinds of measures: a. Military and non-military programs affecting primarily the affairs of the Free World; b. Constructive political, diplomatic, and economic
  • to be clear about two other matters, to the G·e rmana as well as among ourselves: a. It is Paris, not Washington, that is pressing oa the aerm.aaa a choice between ~....ranee anc:l the u. s. ; 5. We ought to accompany the NATO reorsanb:ation with as manr
  • building construction. The present school building program is being assisted by some of' these contractors who have already started construction on some of the schools. This leaves the public works free to carry on its operation responsibilityo Under
  • toward the present and the future of the Panama Canal. On the basis of this review I have reached two decisions. First, I have decided that the United States should press forward with Panama and other intores ted qoverrut\ents, in plans and preparations
  • But Rejected; and VII. Recommendations. I. • • U. S. Objectives in South Vietnam We seek an independent non-Communist South Vietnam. We do not require that it serve as a Western base or as a member of a Western Alliance. E'outh Vietnam must be free, however
  • ~ , , •. ~· ~ This worldng paper is .a selective and by no means comprehensive list of developing 'situations of potential concern to the US in Free World countries. It is issued informally, and primarily for use within the Bureau by INR briefing officers. FAR EAST
  • ratio - Technology deficient; meager resources for human subsistence Sources: Philip M. Hauser and Otis 0. Duncan (Editors). THE STUDY OF POPULATION: AN INVENTORY AND APPRAISAL. Uni·versity of Chicago Press, 1959, and Or. Wilbur Zelinsky . A PROLOGUE
  • us, and we should not start down this road unless the Soviets proved ready to go the route with uso How­ ever pressure alone -- unaccompanied by any effort to meet security problems the Indians regarded as both real and pressing -- might still failo
  • today. A copy went to Secre• tary Rusk. who ls not listed on the NSAM. but who ia a member. of the Council. An info copy went to Dr. Welsh. I assume you will be handling the proposed press r~lease. e c.. : File Copy THE WHITE H OUSE WASHING T
  • of those officers who are auth~rized to discuss these problems with the press, and that other officers should be instructed to refrain from such discusEii
  • to the press except upon the explicit instructions of the Secretary of State • ... co~ii'lO..ENTit\L ... , ­
  • is sought by NATO authorities. c. Those which have pa!ticular political significance or implications. d.. Any exercise which is otherwise of such a nature as to rec.eive prominent attention by the press. e. Other exercises with which you or the Joint Chiefs
  • for its implementation be released to the press except upon the explicit instructions of the Secretary of State. I 'lI I I J I I ·1 I ! THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON October 5, 1966 CONFIQ~~lTIAL DECLASSIFIED Authority ..StQ~ 'i -I'/- 7 1 re- AJLJ
  • MEMORANDUM FOR MR. BUNDY SUBJECT: Language Study for U. S. Government Dependents 1. On April 16, at a press conference, a questioner suggested that it would be worthwhile to provide language training to the wives of U.S. military ahd diplomatic personnel
  • that the Government be unified. It is of particular importance that express or implied criticism of officers of other branches be scrupulously avoided in all contacts with the Vietnamese Government and with the press. More specifically, the President approves
  • to the contrary, I do not wish any American official in any forum to press for a binding agreement at this time. I wish to maintain the position established in our talks with Prime Minister Wilson -- namely, that the U.S. is not seeking to force its own
  • Secretary 'ryler-, Aasiatant .S eeretacy Greenfield, .Amba~sador· Smith., and' the regular Public A£fairs Bureau s .pokeaman aa the onl:y :author.ize:d officers 't n the J>epartment co dia;c uss with the: press the st:atus of gove~atal. a~nd inter­
  • the discussions would help forestall its · distortion in the press as an attempted diversion or "girmnick" and the possibility of its being so construed in Europe. B. The time required to obtain meaningful data on mixed-manning, even with the JCS alternative