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149. Memorandum From the Executive Secretary of the Department of State (Springsteen) to the President’s Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs (Scowcroft), Washington, October 17, 1974.

untries with some 75 percent of the world’s population now accept population control efforts. However, even among countries which have severe population pressures the effort is highly uneven, and many countries including Brazil, Argentina, Ethiopia, Nigeria, the USSR , Poland and Hungary in fact remain opposed. The built-in momentum of population growth inherent in the young, age structure of rapidly growing countries is imperfectly understood. Thus in many countries there is incomplete intellectual and political commitment to population control efforts by governments and political elites. In …