Word: cutoffs
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Until he does so, he can expect little or no help for his free-falling economy, with an inflation rate of more than 75%, a gaping balance of payments deficit and a budget that devotes 40% of its resources to the military. The cutoff of U.S. aid after the 1988 riots has had no discernible effect, leading some American policymakers to ponder whether to try some limited involvement with the Burmese government once again. Burton Levin, the former U.S. ambassador to Burma, says no. "To think you can sit down and talk to these people would be to ignore...
...freeze on trade with Iraq and Kuwait is buffeting a lot of people, from U.S. manufacturers of oil-field equipment to Irish meat producers to Italian shipbuilders. If U.N. sanctions produced a cutoff in trade with Iraq, they also led Iraq to suspend payment on outstanding debts. The result is dislocation and even hardship among Iraq's erstwhile commercial partners...
...response. This refusal risks violating the Case-Zablocki Act of 1972, which requires the Secretary of State to submit to Congress within 60 days the substance of all international accords, written or oral. A year ago, failure to do so would have raised the threat of a funding cutoff, but that provision of the act was inadvertently allowed to lapse this year. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee plans to put this stricture back on the books next year. In the meantime, it has been negotiating with the White House for a look at the Saudi agreements, so far without success...
...Islamabad the caretaker government of Prime Minister Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi was startled by the aid cutoff. Some Pakistani officials do not believe Washington is serious, because it needs Islamabad's help in the gulf. Others chalk it up to irritation on Capitol Hill at the dismissal of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on corruption charges. If elections are open and fair, they believe, the "political problems in Washington" will ease...
...number of students interviewed yesterday were unaware of any cutoff date for the telephone access codes, and several said they had been confused by the subtleties of the University's complex new phone network...