Word: aid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interference" if Washington's policies do no suit their own local politics and passions. Foreign policy first aid seems necessary in at least two places, Turkey and Pakistan. Policymakers perhaps need to be more aware that the "Marxism" of some of these countries is as fragile as the regimes themselves. Even Ethiopia's strongman, Lieut. Colonel Mengistu, is said to have turned down Soviet demands that he set up a political party, and he is carefully watching over his country's dealings with the Russians...
...Raymond Hare, summed up the U.S.'s minimum interests in the region as "right of transit, access to petroleum, and absence of Soviet military bases." That probably remains the bottom line today. Toward that end, the U.S. may have to step up technical, economic and (very selectively) military aid. Already the U.S. has a potential "archipelago of allies" that aid each other in opposing Moscow-supported internal subversion and provide selective arms support to nations in need. Two examples: even though it maintains, officially, a nonaligned foreign policy, India has quietly tried to moderate Soviet influence in Afghanistan...
...that Premier Pol Pot, 53, who has ruled Cambodia since the Communists came to power in 1975, was said to be preparing a speedy escape to China with his chief comrades. Desperate, Cambodian Head of State Khieu Samphan appealed by radio to "all friends, far and near, to give aid and support of all kinds and forms...
...scramble to stay afloat, some private colleges are looking to newly liberalized federal student aid programs. Federal tuition grants, which students can use at either public or private colleges, are available to families with incomes as high as $25,000, up from $15,000 in past years. Through these and other grant programs, public funds already represent 35% of private-college revenues; given Washington's current tight-fisted mood, the percentage is not likely to increase by much. That suits some educators, who believe public support is already so high that it threatens the independence and experimental freedom...
Sell the Students. Leonard Meyers, development chief of Florida's Eckerd College, displays a loose-leaf "baby book"-a collection of photos and biographical sketches of students who need aid-when visiting local fat cats. Says Meyers: "We ask donors to adopt a student...