Aid and trade
Sir, —It was predictable that the city’s peaceniks, eager to help the communists to win their war in the Philippines, would rush into print to attack Senator Melcher’s appeal for aid for the people of that country. It is. a paradox of the Reagan Administration that, while it seems to be genuinely anti-communist, it has axed United States financial support for birth control in the poorer countries, thus throwing away the main effective weapon against poverty and the spread of Maxist tyranny. It follows, therefore, that if the New Zealand Government was willing to spend a few hundred thousand, dollars on promoting family planning in the Philippines, it might do wonders for the welfare of the people there. The best first step would be for New Zealand to make a television programme about conditions in the Philippines, including interviews with local people who support family planning and with those who oppose it. — Yours, etc., MARK D. SADLER. January 25, 1988.
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