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January 21 Carter's first day in office
India tried to send, in 1977, one hundred buffalo, a very small number, to Vietnam to replenish these losses. We tried to block it by threatening to cancel Food for Peace aid to India if they sent the hundred buffalo. The Mennonites in the United States tried to send pencils to Cambodia; again the State Department tried to block it. They also tried to send shovels to Laos to dig up the unexploded ordnance.
The Chomsky Reader - Noam Chomsky p.326
Carter, incidentally, once explained in a news conference what he was up to. This was in 1977, when he was giving one of his sermons about human rights. He was asked what about Vietnam? And he said that we owe Vietnam no debt because the destruction was mutual."
The Chomsky Reader - Noam Chomsky p.326
The profits-over-human consideration was clearly evident in Ford's reluctance to change the design of the Pinto as fatalities and injuries occurred because of the faulty gas tank. Although the company calculated that it would cost only $11 to make each car safe, it decided that this was too costly. Ford reasoned that 180 burn deaths, 180 serious burn injuries, and 2,100 burned vehicles would cost $49.5 million (each death was figured at $200,000). But doing a recall of all Pintos and making each $11 repair would amount to $137 million.
Elite Deviance - David R. Simon & D. Stanley Eitzen p.123
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