November 11, 1971

Sen, 61-23, approves foreign aid bill authorizing $1.14-billion in econ and humanitarian assistance; votes, 45-12, to more than double prevailing interest rates on long-term loans to poor countries outside Latin Amer despite Adm warnings that action will put $250-million in development loan funds out of reach of developing countries; provision will eliminate present 10-yr 'grace' period in which borrowing countries pay 2% interest and abolish 3% rate charged thereafter; calls for over-all rate at least as high as cost of money to US Treas, which is about 6 1/8%; vote follows warning from AID that poor countries could not afford to borrow on such terms; Javits warned that developing countries are already paying in debt service of about $5-billion annually; HR adopts by voice vote continuing resolution to keep aid program alive until end of yr; measure would extend spending authority of AID at last yr's level of $2.6-billion until adjournment of present session of Cong; Sen Ellender tells newsmen that he will not call meeting of panel to consider HR-approved extension although it contains funding authority for several other Fed agencies that have yet to receive their regular appropriations; Mansfield, in softening of position, says he will not oppose extension resolution if it is ltd to funds needed to pay AID salaries and operating expenses

Rockefeller says plan proposed by Beame to save NYC transit fare by taxing business and real estate in NYC is 'forthright approach' to problem; sees utilization of some portion of NYC-NYS fare package reached in Oct to save fare as having best chance of approval by Legis; Councilman Gelfand scores Beame plan; predicts that City Council will not enact new taxes even if Legis passes enabling laws

SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 10—Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba arrived in Chile today on his first trip to Latin America in 11 years and received an enthusiastic welcome in the streets of this capital. Mr. Castro stepped off the white Soviet jet airliner that had brought him here nonstop from Havana and embraced his old friend and political admirer, President Salvador Allende Gossens of Chile.

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M W Browne rept from guerrilla hamlet south of Dacca; says guerrillas feel secure from Army and display Bangla Desh posters and pictures of Mujibur that bring mil reprisals elsewhere; says signals and clandestine arrangements smooth way of traveling with guerrillas in non-liberated areas; notes guerrillas are short of arms and training with weapons for only 1 in 4; says they are confident of eventual victory; holds that despite Pakistan Army's superior firepower it is fighting an increasingly bloody war of attrition; discusses guerrilla method of operations and camp organization; says officers evade questions about Mujibnager, proclaimed Bangla Desh capital, and chain of command; notes guerrillas are determined to fight on no matter what happens to Mujibur Rahman, that they oppose humanitarian relief in E Pakistan, charging Govt uses relief as pol tool; illus