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...this the Bureau of Indian Affairs has been steadily contracting out to the tribes more and more of its police, job-training, education and social programs every year. In 1983, BIA handed over control of $235 million of these projects to the tribes, up from $50 million in 1976. Congress last year appropriated $5 million in "seed money" to attract light industry and business to the reservations...
...their bingo gaming. The usual fee is 45% of profits. There are some extravagantly bad deals: some Morongos, for instance, were given microwave ovens and video games, but get only 5% of any profits over $500,000. A bill introduced in Congress by Arizona Democrat Morris Udall would require BIA scrutiny of all Indian bingo-management deals...
...without significant input from the Laguna people themselves. Although the BIA must by law act in the best interest of the tribes whose land it holds in trust, the Bureau actually exposed the Lagunas to a host of health dangers...
...through the multilateral institu tions. Venezuela, a founding member of OPEC, has been assist ing the poorer nations of the Car ibbean basin, and Saudi Arabia spends about 3% of its G.N.P. on aid programs for such relatively poor Islamic states as Pakistan, Syria and Jordan. But Saudi Ara bia's vast wealth represents a global problem and not just a re gional one, since it has accumulat ed that wealth partly at the ex pense of oil-importing poor countries around the world...
...BIA spokesmen say they are now ready to conduct feasibility surveys and may be able to award grants by April...