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21. Letter From the Administrator of the Agency for International Development ( Bell ) to the Director of the Bureau of the Budget ( Gordon )

control system and is making good progress in invigoration of its rural economy. In our proposed FY 1966 funding over two thirds of the development assistance recommended for country programs is intended for eight countries (India, Pakistan, Turkey, Nigeria, Tunisia, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia—see Table 1). None of the tables or figures is printed. The U.S. interest in development is high for each of these countries. We expect that country performance will be sufficiently good and that our aid and other assistance available to them together with country efforts will produce substantial, measu…