Word: aids
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...their readiness to go to any lengths to assure their position. They have accepted some hardships resulting from international trade sanctions, though many of the sanctions have been bypassed through devious third-party transactions. Internally, unemployment among Africans has risen, but Smith has maintained employment for whites through government aid. For instance, he reactivated Rhodesia's Ford and British Motor Corp. assembly plants to produce new 1966 cars from a three-year-old supply of parts...
Smith has also received generous aid from South Africa, even though his regime's blatant march toward apartheid is something of an embarrassment to Pretoria and its "outward-looking" foreign policy of making friends with its African neighbors. The embarrassment is likely to increase as Rhodesia makes use of the constitution's possibilities for repressive laws. Sooner or later, those laws are likely to be needed. South Africans are outnumbered by Africans only 4 to 1. White Rhodesians have set themselves the task of staying on top in a country where they are a minority by a ratio...
Insistent Demands. Throughout the week, Rockefeller and his advisers listened to essentially the same demands that they had heard on their two earlier swings: more U.S. aid without strings and the lifting of U.S. import restrictions on Latin American exports to the United States...
Washington seems to be moving in these directions. Last week President Nixon decided to abolish the often criticized principle of "additionality," which, since 1965, has forced Latin Americans to buy American goods with U.S. aid money. Last year, 92% of the $336 million aid package to Latin America was, in fact, spent in the U.S., compared with only 41% in 1960. Additionality was originally introduced to help improve the U.S. balance of payments, but has brought the U.S. a mere $35 million in annual savings. Since that amount is but a drop in the $4 billion annual U.S. sales...
Many Economies. For all the successes of Suharto's technocrats, Indonesia's persisting problems are staggering. Unless the benefits of stabilization filter down to the masses soon, political problems may surface again. The new five-year plan is dependent in part on foreign aid, which totals $500 million this year, $208 million of that from the U.S. A drop in assistance could cripple the plan. So could a bad harvest. The bureaucracy remains often corrupt, inefficient and underemployed, and civil service reform is a long way off. The nation's Chinese minority (about...