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Thursday, September 19, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Ford vows food aid, defies Arabs
From the Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS—President Gerald R. Ford yesterday presented the United Nations with a pledge of increased U.S. food aid for needy countries, a challenge to Arab and an impromptu endorsement for Henry A. Kissinger, secretary of state.
"Failure to co-operate on oil, food and inflation could spill disaster for every nation represented in this room," Ford told reporters in a speech that "a global strategy for food and energy."
It was Ford's first major foreign policy address of his 51-week-old presidency.
He inserted into his prepared speech a statement intended to assure the nation, the world and Kissinger that Kissinger's role in unchanged in the new administration.
In the added statement, written out in long-hand by Ford minutes before his speech, the President said Kissinger "has my full support and the unquestioned responsibility both as secretary of state and as head of the White House national security system.
Presidential aides said Ford departed from his prepared text because he wanted to underscore his intention that Kissinger would be the director of the National Security Council.
Kissinger had been upset by news reports Tuesday that an unnamed presidential adviser had recommended that Kissinger be replaced in the White House job.
From the Associated Press
Tide turns on balance of foreign trade
WASHINGTON—A big increase in overseas investments and the high cost of foreign oil plunged the nation's balance of payments to a $2.7 billion deficit in the second quarter of the fiscal year, the Commerce Department reported yesterday.
The 3-month deficit marked a reversal from the first quarter's $1.8 billion surplus. The balance-of-payments deficit means money flowed out of the country than came in.
The deficit was attributed mainly to an increase of $1 billion in overseas investments by Americans and to a $1.6 billion in the high cost of foreign trade. The high cost of foreign oil was the chief factor in the worsening trade picture, the department said.
In normal times, a big payments deficit could lead to a weakening in value of the U.S. dollar. Such a deficit prompted the 1971 and 1973 devaluations of the dollar.
But a Commerce Department spokesman said that these were abnormal times and dollars were in great demand by other countries as payment for their own oil purchases.
But Kissinger denied that he had asked for words of assurance from Ford.
The praise for Kissinger sent a ripple of applause through the hall, where Kissinger sat with delegations from the United States and 132 other countries. Israel was absent and only the American Embassy and Cuba, which is on unfriendly terms with the United States, did not attend.
Ford promised the assembly the United States would spend more on food shipments to needy countries and booster technical aid to their food production programs. He also said that world agriculture was ready to regroup world food reserve plan, although gave no specifics.
He turned to the energy question with blunt words for the Arab countries.
"Now is the time for the oil producers to define their conception of a global policy on
energy to meet the growing need, and to do this without imposing unacceptable burdens on the international monetary and trade system," Ford said.
In declaring that a global strategy is needed on food and energy, Ford said prices would be low. "If we are to be clear that by confronting consumers with production restrictions, artificial pricing and the prospect of ultimate bankruptcy, we cannot become the victims of their own actions."
He said it had not been the U.S. policy to use food as a political weapon despite the oil embargo and recent oil price and production decisions.
Arab diplomats reacted coolly to Ford's remarks.
"I couldn't agree with everything he said," said Sabah A. A. Al-Sabah, foreign
minister of Kuwait, one of the richest on producing nations.
Ambassador Jamil Baroody of Saudi Arabia said he later told Ford at a reception in New York that he just had lunch while for $10 he can buy enough gasoline to drive his car for a week.
Several non-Arab diplomats said they were pleased that Ford, as one put it, had "thrown the gaudet" to the oil producers. A Japanese representative said, "China has to talk openly to the oil companies, but only the United States can dare to."
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Ackromyko said he was going to study Ford's forces.
After the address, Ford greeted more than 200 delegates and diplomats at a conference.
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Nixon tells ambassador of plans to enter hospital for treatment
From the Associated Press
LONDON—Former President Richard Nixon telephoned. U.S. Ambassador Walter Annenberg Tuesday night and said he ex-communist was a hospital soon, Annenberg said yesterday.
Nix. Mr. Nixon made no mention of how he left completely normal to me, "Anmembran said. Nixon reportedly is suffering from phalangeitis, an inflammation of the veins, in his hand."
pressed fears that a second clot above could move in the direction of the groin.
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Friday, Sept. 20, 1974
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