Word: aid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there was any light to be found in East Timor last week, it was in the U.N. compound in Dili, where a small group of aid workers, journalists and refugees kept up a heroic mission. Though Annan had ordered the compound shut on Wednesday, after militia groups attacked a U.N. food convoy, his local representatives revolted: fearing the 1,500 refugees in the compound would be massacred once the foreigners left, the staff members circulated petitions and announced they would stay. After a few hours of frantic negotiating, the U.N. left behind a skeleton staff of 84 people, who endured...
...What price can you put on making someone literate?" he asked. "What price can you put on a child, who thanks to an aid-funded vaccination program, does not die before...
...said he considers basic education a human right. "Education is the key to life," he said, and added that it was unfortunate that just as African countries' interest in aid for development is increasing, the aid being offered is decreasing...
Addressing concerns that aid was wasted, he cited statistics showing that many aid dollars went directly to debt relief...
...economic concessions out of the West by behaving badly and threatening worse. Five years ago, North Korea agreed to dismantle its nuclear weapons program in exchange for a massive energy assistance program from South Korea, the U.S. and Japan. When those countries were slow to deliver on promised energy aid, Pyongyang feinted toward rebuilding its nuclear program before allowing inspection of its facilities in exchange for promises of aid. Recent preparations for long-range missile tests were also widely interpreted as an attempt to press for more economic assistance amid a deepening food crisis. "Washington and its allies...