buried, was chairman of his friend George Bush's 1980 election campaign in New Jersey,
and has been United States Treasury Secretary throughout Bush's presidency.
Bush and Gray
The U.S. Agency for International Development says that surgical sterilization is the
Bush administration's `` first choice '' method of population reduction in the Third World.
The United Nations Population Fund claims that 37 percent of contraception users in
Ibero-America and the Caribbean have already been surgically sterilized. In a 1991
report, William H. Draper III's agency asserts that 254 million couples will be surgically
sterilized over the course of the 1990s; and that if present trends continue, 80 percent of
the women in Puerto Rico and Panama will be surgically sterilized.
The U.S. government pays directly for these sterilizations.
Mexico is first among targeted nations, on a list, which was drawn up in July 1991, at a
USAID strategy session. India and Brazil are second and third priorities, respectively.
On contract with the Bush administration, U.S. personnel are working from bases in
Mexico to perform surgery on millions of Mexican men and women. The acknowledged
strategy in this program is to sterilize those young adults who have not already completed
their families.
George Bush has a rather deep-seated personal feeling about this project, in particular as
it pits him against Pope John Paul II in Catholic countries such as Mexico. (See Chapter 4
below, on the origin of a Bush family grudge in this regard.)
The spending for birth control in the non-white countries is one of the few items that is
headed upwards in the Bush administration budget. As its 1992 budget was being set,
USAID said its Population Account would receive $300 million, a 20 percent increase
over the previous year. Within this project, a significant sum is spent on political and
psychological manipulations of target nations, and rather blatant subversion of their
religions and governments.
These activities might be expected to cause serious objections from the victimized
nationalities, or from U.S. taxpayers, especially if the program is somehow given
widespread publicity.
Quite aside from moral considerations, legal questions would naturally arise, which could
be summed up: How does George Bush think he can get away with this?
In this matter the President has expert advice. Mr. (Clayland) Boyden Gray has been
counsel to George Bush since the 1980 election. As chief legal officer in the White
House, Boyden Gray can walk the President through the dangers and complexities of