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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON SUNDAY. JUNE . 1M3 B 5 Moscosos Believes By ARNALDO OTERO Washington EPt Teodoro Moscosos reftises to sell President Kennedy's billion dollar, long -range Latin American alliance for prog ress program short.- Critics and downgraders to the contrary, he thinks that eventually it will achieve its purpose to banish commu nism from the hemisphere by erasing poverty and illit eracy and giving the Latin American masses a better way of life. Moscoso, who emulates a bumblebee as he hurries about his job, is the presi dent's coordinator of U,S. participation in the pro gram. Because of his knowl edge of Latin America, he was chosen 18 months ago to get the project off the ground. Far From lis Coal . He knows full well that to day it is not perfect and is far from its goal. But he con fronts his critics confidently and is as determined as Mr. Kennedy to make it work. Moscoso, a native of Puerto Rico, made that clear in a candid interview in which he dealt with the most persistent complaints against the alliance, its administra tors and some foot-dragging Latin American participants. Here is the interview in question and answer form: Q: Do you now feel that the goals of the alliance were set too high and thus make complete success next to im- possible? . Allianca Will Succeed A: In the first place, the the alliance will succeed. There are too many reasons hy I think so to list them. I don't think the goals were set too high. What may have been set too high was the ex pectation of a rapid achieve ment. This is a 10-year pro gram. People' are starting to gauge its success over an 18 month period. I think this is unfair to those who participate-, including the Latin American governments. The setting up for what may seem to be high goals was done primarily by a group of Latin American economists. And I think they were very realistic when they set them. We will not start to reach those goals in at least a num ber of years for the same rea son that you don't reach full speed in an automobile im mediately. I think that what is going to happen is that by the end of the 10-year period, most of the nations of Latin Ameri ca will have achieved a rate of growth higher than the goals set up. Q: Many describe the pro gram as a faltering alliance. Do you agree? Program Has to Be Planned A: No. A program such as this has to be planned. You have to get ready to put it in motion. And this has been the period we have been going through to move faster later. Q: Then you are out of the planning stage and into what? A: Into the action stage. Six nations have submitted their basic plans to the Organiza tion of American States. Six additional national plans are to be turned in shortly. Q: A condition of U.S. economic aid was that greater self-help and reform efforts had to be undertaken by the recipient countries. Have they kept their promises? A: It is very difficult to gen eralize on how fast reforms can be made in any country, including the United States. We (in the United States) have had the need for reform ing our attitude toward the segregation of school chil dren since the Supreme Court decreed nine years ago that there should be no segrega tion. We have made very slow progress in complying with the ruling. So I don't think that you can say that the Latin Ameri can governments have been making unnecessarily slow progress. They have made good progress in certain in stances and not enough in others. Aiks for Names Q: Could you name some of the countries that are not meeting their commitments? A: No. It would not serve any useful purpose. I think most of us here and in Latin America are aware that many of these governments are changing rather rapidly in their approach to their needs and that pressing problems affect their ability to push re forms. Asked about specific situa tions in some specific coun tries, he declined to be quoted. Q: Can it be said that you do not expect the alliance to succeed completely In all the republics? A: Yes. And certainly not in 18 months. We will have an imperfect performance In most of the countries. How ever, we will accelerate and do better as we gain experi ence. To Social Development Q: Some businessmen here and abroad claim the alliance is geared too much toward social development and not enough toward strong private enterprise development. Is that the case? A:' Economic and social development have to move forward simultaneously. If you have one without the other you have an unbalanced lliance Will Remember Dad Next Sunday... On His Day! "How To Tell When You've Arrived" Wheit the winner of tha company golf tourna ment gets to pose with you OR when you wouldn't dream of appearing at a summer function dressed In anything but an open convertible and a Hart Schaffner & Marx sportcost. EM See Our Hart Schaffner & Marx Sport Coats SHOP EVERY MON. & FRI. UNTIL 9 P.M. Ride 'n Shop Member SON mm Everything For Men and Boys Next to Pick's Apparel Downtown Medford ""-tejt ""vy Eventually Achieve Its Purpose COORDINATOR OF PROGRAM Teodoro Moscosos, shown above in a picture taken in November, 1961, refuses to sell President Kennedy's billion-dollar, long-range Latin-American Alliance. For Progress short. Moscosos, a native of Puerto Rico, is the President's coordinator of U.S. participa tion in the program. (UPI) """""""MIBW; . .l.UU l lwjewanwwiwepeewai 1 TV p "J iSw 1 economy. Social develop ment without economic prog ress means that the super structure of social services is going to topple some day. On the other hand, if you have economic development with out social progress, you may also topple the structure through hidden and latent forces created by social ten sions which erupt in violent manifestations in many in stances. Q: Some critics say the United States has not met its commitments. Is this true? A: No. They have been met. One of the commitments was that we would make available at least SI billion within the first year of the alliance. And we did. We committed in the first fiscal year some $1.2 billion and disbursed more than $1 bil lion. Question Us of Montr Q: Some U. S. taxpayers question the use of their money for Latin America when Latin capital is fleeing Council Approval Of Housing Plan Sought in Ashland Ashland - Council approval for a proposed 12-unit housing project for senior citizens was sought by Bert DeKorte, Val ley View contractor, at this week's council session. DeKorte explained the stip ulations required by FHA for building loans and said that he would like to have the nec essary steps taken for the first such center at Maple and Rock sts. He announced that he hopes to follow this first unit with another larger proj ect in Ashland. Members of the council rec ommended that favorable ac tion be taken on the project when it is presented to the city planning commission. The council gave approval to the June 22 Water Carnival parade and discussed a re auest from the chamber of commerce for continuance of the Economic Development committee on a yearly basis after the June 30 expiration date. Purchase of city-owned land by the Northwest-Pacific De velopment Corps was referred to the realty committee. Harry Rees, 171 Wightman st., requested a meeting with the traffic committee to study the problem of heavy truck ing through a residential area. George Langford, 430 Holly St., asked the council to take action on a "serious" drainage situation and to provide pipe for his property. Chipman Takes Job With Valley Station Art Chipman, formerly sales manager for KYJC Ra dio, has been appointed na tional sales manager and di rector of merchandising and promotion for KMED Radio and Television, according to Ray Johnson, general manu aacr. Chipman has been with KYJC for the past years. Prior to returning to Oregon, his native state, he had ex perience in the national ad vertising field, Johnson stated. The Chlpmans live at 2251 Ross lane, Medford. the area. What are your views on this? A: Capital often flees a country because of economic and political Instability, and to avoid inflationary forces that depreciate the curren cies, 'among other reasons. Anyone who has liquid funds under these conditions tries to protect the value of those funds by putting them in safe havens. This has been hap pening throughout history in underdeveloped countries. Q: But why, some ask. should the U.S. taxpayer pay for this development when local capital is running away? A: They are not going to pay for It. The Latin Ameri cans themselves will be pro viding the bulk of the funds. More thm 80 per cent of the Investment will be made by Latin Americans, and is being made by . Latin Americans. What we are going to sup ply is marginal funds. We are going to show our faith in their economies and hope their own people will respond to that show of faith by re taining some of the funds that otherwise might be in vested elsewhere in their countries. Some Nation's Objected Q: Some Latin American critics say there is no central agency but a multipliciy of agencies in the alliance. What are your comments? A: I must say that the peo ple who met at Punta del Este in Aug. 1961, when the alliance was drawn up, fore saw this, and they tried to create a focus of coordination in the committee of nine wise men. Unfortunately, some na tions objected to centraliia tion of the corrdinating ef fort. So the powers of the wisemen committee were weakened. The committee had been visualiied as the central agency which would have given the alliance not only a very definite Latin American characteristic but new characteristic. Q: You have been confront ed with a series of violent changes of governments in Latin America. Some persons expected the alliance to dis courage such things, yet we had at least three in recent months. Could you comment, please? A: I think that military takeovers in some of the coun tries have disappointed quite a number of people, not only In the United States but in Latin America. To that I will say that it is again unreal istic to expect miraculous changes in attitudes and tra ditions in a short time. I think the best we can do is to expect betterment and I think that we are getting that. Dictators Disappearing If you look back to the past few years you will no tice that we have seen a num ber of dictatorships disappear - that personal dictatorship which has been so detriment al to Democratic Latin Amer ica; those dictatorships have been disappearing. We also can see that where- sver these military takeovers have taken place we have immediately received assur ances from the military Jun tas of democratic elections In a reasonable period of time. That, by Itself, has been a great improvement. Q: In the forthcoming U.S. election, the Kennedy admin istration may be taken to task for its role In Latin America. Some may argue that if the alliance is so good, why couldn't it encourage the fall of the Communist regime in Cuba? Can Cuba be brought back into the Bill- Local Groups Assist In National Program A national program, New Glory for Old Glory, is being cosponsored in Medford by the American Legion and the National Institute of Dry Cleaning. The program. In Its 10th year, encourages persons who own United States flags to have them dry cleaned, with out charge, in preparation for displaying them on Flag Day, June 14. All dry cleaning firms In the Medford area are partic ipating in the program. Earlier this month Medford Mayor James Dunievy signed a proclamation proclaiming the first two weeks in June as a time for rededicating Old Glory. In his proclamation the mayor encouraged residents to display the flag on Flag Day. made available to the alii ance? A: The Congress must re view the appropriations that ate made available for this program every year. On the other hand, the commitment has been made by responsible public officials for a 10-year program. I think that with reasonable performance from the Latin American countries. in so far as compliance with reform and self - help meas ures are concerned, that we are going to get the backing of Congress and the funds will be made available. But I would like to clari fy point here. People in Latin America have a tenden cy to equate the aid program with the funds available for the Alliance for Progress. This is not correct. There are a number of agencies, which participate in the program and these agen cies are totally or partially financed by the United States. I refer especially to the Ex port Import bank, the Inter American Development bank (which iljianages the $400 mil lion iuna supplied oy tne United States) and, of course. the Food for Peace program which participates to the ex tent of close to $150 million a year. Government Program Q: Some people criticize your program for being too much of a government-to-gov ernment program. What about this? A: It is bound to be so In the beginnings of the program. We are talking about pro grams which deal primarily with the creation of social and economic infra structure (changes inside a nation or government). In all the coun tries of the world the bulk of the responsibility for this In vestment is In the hands of governments. Obviously, since there is so much need for this type of work In Latin America, there is bound to be a lot of govern ment-to-government lending. But there Is also considerable peopie - to people program ming, particularly by the vol untary agencies - such a a CARE, CAR1TAS, etc. The other thing is that the private sector, both In the United States and In Latin i A: I would have insisted on reconsideration of the move to create a focal point of decision-making and overseeing of the entire program. I think that if such a body had been created in the Punta del Este Charter, there would have been a greater sense of Latin American participation. There also would have been a great er ability to come quickly to the decision-making agency or institution. 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