The Michigan Daily-Friday, October 16, 1981-Page 9 ........... Reagan def ends U.S. foreign aid PHILADELPHIA (AP) - President Reagan assailed the Soviet Union yesterday as having nothing to offer the global poor, while he rejected the claims of "some shrill voices" that he is tightfisted with America's helping hand. Setting the stage for his journey to Mexico next week for a conference between 22 industrial and developing nations, Reagan offered no promise of boosted foreign aid in the years to come - though he noted the United States already gives more than any other nation. Instead, he said a greater con- tribution "is to follow through with our own economic recovery" coupled with greater private investment in foreign trade. "BY GETTING our own economic house in order, we win, they win, we all win," the president said, referring to the industrial democracies on one hand and the poorest nations on the other. The speech, before the World Affairs Council, broke no new ground. But it affirmed Reagan's thoughts on inter- national economics one week before he meets with 21 other heads of gover- nment in Cancun, Mexico, to review relations between the world's rich and poor. "For the record," Reagan declared, "the Soviets will not attend the con- ference at Cancun. They simply wash their hands of any responsibility, in- sisting all the economic problems of the world result from capitalism, and all the solutions lie with socialism. .._ .: r'':.. :: s:"":^ r...., ..J ..: .r .. f-}}}}::v}; ;:: r': ,,, ^'r.3:i I