Word: besetting
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...episode should be instructive to a country that has long been beset with doubts about its overall foreign aid program. It is particularly ironic that Washington should have given such a hospitable reception to a big, unexpected outlay in these tight times. Earlier, Congress had been expected to offer stout resistance to an Administration proposal for a $159 million increase, to $6 billion, in economic and military aid worldwide for fiscal 1980. Last week's events probably will not alter that prospect dramatically, but they at least raise the possibility that the nation might be moved to renovate...
Thus the administration of the foreign aid program was left just as it was: beset and beleaguered, and known largely for its failures. Those failures are well publicized: some ill-advised projects and scattered cases of misuse of funds by corrupt recipients. In an odd Gresham's Law, the bad news about foreign aid seems to drive out the good-and there is a lot of good news. Foreign aid has contributed to the rise of a series of economically free and prosperous "ADCS," or advanced developing countries, including South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia and Thailand. U.S. assistance...
...jeopardized prospects of peace in the Middle East. The latest of these, the Islamic revolution in Iran, had cut off half of Israel's oil supply and brought new strength to the Palestinians. And Carter was no longer the hero of Camp David, but a weakened leader, beset by upheavals from Viet Nam to Iran to Africa. A New York Times-CBS poll showed that a mere 30% of those asked approved of his handling of foreign affairs...
Obviously, this discussion could not get very specific, since a covert operation openly advocated is a contradiction in terms. But the panel did produce a list of countries where the U.S. could profitably operate. Afghanistan. Iraq, a police state with severe tribal problems. Syria, a minority government beset by corruption. South Yemen, which Akins said "is not considered a country; it is considered a Soviet base. Two-thirds of the population have fled as refugees. They can all be used to go back into the country...
...vote was a blow to Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan, who is already beset by a sharp slide in the polls and a Labor rebellion against his anti-inflation program. But the referendum is not binding, and he can still press for a Scottish assembly, citing the majority vote for it. As long as Callaghan can hold out some hope for the nationalists, he is assured of their support for a while longer, at least...