Word: donors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your Essay on book borrowing brought to mind a current problem of mine: I received as a gift John Updike's Rabbit Is Rich and later recommended it to the donor, who borrowed but has not returned...
...million inventory in Austin with tax tips: a collection of rare books that cost $50,000 to build, he points out, can be donated to a library and deducted from taxes at the current value. So the collecting is free, and the gift may be named for the donor: immortality at discount prices. Concludes Jenkins: "All an investor needs is patience, a good adviser and a collection worth more than the sum of its parts." Two sample collections suggested by Jenkins: a complete library of imprints by Iowa publishers and all of Charles Schulz's Snoopy publications...
...supplied to Kampuchea by the entire Communist world is declining. Since October 1979, 488 million has been provided by the Soviet bloc. Last year the total was $103 million, and only five socialist countries-mainly the Soviet Union and East Germany-contributed at all. By comparison, 50 non-Communist donor nations to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) sent $190 million in relief aid to Kampuchea...
Without continued high levels of humanitarian aid to Kampuchea, Viet Nam will be hard pressed to maintain its presence there. Hanoi is in debt for $3 billion in foreign currency, almost half from non-Communist countries. Thus when those donor nations meet this week they will be confronted by a difficult moral and political choice: either to provide aid to Kampuchea and risk subsidizing the communization of the Khmer people, or to stop it and risk losing thousands of innocent lives...