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Prime Minister Thatcher had other good reasons to call for aid from the Reagan Administration. As both sides well knew, Britain has been the firmest ally of the U.S. throughout the 20th century. Whenever the U.S. has asked for similar kinds of help from its friends, Britain has given it, often at considerable cost. In recent years, the Thatcher government has joined in U.S.-sponsored trade sanctions against the Soviet Union for its invasion of Afghanistan, endorsed the U.S. call for a boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics for the same reason, and vociferously criticized the martial-law crackdown...
Reagan's weak response reflected an Administration desire to go as easy as possible on the Argentines, although the U.S. had supported the U.N. resolution calling for Argentina to get out of the Falklands. Reversing Jimmy Carter's policy, which denied aid to Argentina because of its human rights violations, the Reagan Administration was trying to work closely with the junta. U.N. Ambassador Kirkpatrick had singled out the Argentine regime as an example of a "friendly authoritarian" government...
This motion will probably, per convention, induce other institutions to follow in Harvard’s footsteps (can you say, “financial aid reform?”) and thus affect other researchers hoping to become part of a similar system in the future. “I applaud Harvard for taking this step. With its reputation, it can make an important statement,” says Richard P. Woychik, director of the Jackson Laboratory in Maine, “It creates data and creates knowledge.” Essentially, Harvard is brimming with resources—maybe it?...
...President has asked Congress to extend and double the funding of PEPFAR when the five-year program expires in 2008. PEPFAR provides anti-retroviral drugs and other treatment for HIV-positive and AIDS patients in developing countries, while also trying to prevent new infections using the "ABC" approach: abstain, be faithful and use condoms. An earlier controversy over the first tenet of that drive - abstinence, which critics claimed reflected an effort impose a conservative Christian morality amid a humanitarian catastrophe - remains. "Certain constituencies, such as sex workers, are excluded from PEPFAR money," says Ayesha Kajee, program director of the International...
...neighbor, Kenya, corruption and vote-rigging is at the center of a bloody stand-off between the government and the opposition in which 1,000 have died since a disputed general election in December. Notwithstanding the President's comments in Tanzania, the U.S. gives $1 billion a year in aid to a Kenyan government that ranks eighth from the bottom in Transparency International's world corruption tables. Bush has declined to visit Kenya, a key ally in Africa, sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to bolster mediation efforts by former U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan...