Word: foreign-aid
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...many foreign-aid workers and Somalis thought targeting Aidid was dangerously simplistic: other thuggish warlords are waiting to take his place. The U.N. action may have tipped the balance of power toward Aidid's enemies, rather than improved the chances for a political settlement. The peacekeepers inflicted more damage on Aidid than his opponents ever did, and they gleefully cheered the blue helmets on. The ferocity of the intervention may also have cast the U.N. as one more faction in the conflict...
Clinton wants that too, at least rhetorically. "But people-to-people exchanges are routinely short-changed when scarce foreign-aid dollars are divvied up," says Senator Bill Bradley. The President's plan to send American experts to Russia can help the country learn market capitalism, "but transforming the place permanently requires changing its values, and the best way to do that is to have people see democracy in action here," says Bradley. He points out that almost half the members of Germany's parliament have studied in the U.S., "a fact that's helped solidify their democracy...
...loan-guarantee debacle has killed any chance of a new foreign-aid bill this year. Last year's aid levels will simply be duplicated, hurting Washington's ability to channel much-needed help to Boris Yeltsin, U.N. peacekeepers and other new priorities. Ironically, Russian Jews in Israel may not suffer so badly. The influx rate has dropped by half as new arrivals have told their relatives to wait until their job and housing prospects perk up. Israel's government cannot stoke the economy with greenbacks, but it will muddle through adequately with donations and commercial loans until the national elections...
...response to concerns of the Vatican, the Reagan Administration agreed to alter its foreign-aid program to comply with the church's teachings on birth control. According to William Wilson, the President's first ambassador to the Vatican, the State Department reluctantly agreed to an outright ban on the use of any U. S. aid funds by either countries or international health organizations for the promotion of birth control or abortion. As a result of this position, announced at the World Conference on Population in Mexico City in 1984, the U.S. withdrew funding from, among others, two of the world...
...urgency the importance of restoring a balance of power there. Iran has served as a counterweight to Iraq before, and it could do so again. If Iran were to bring about the release of the hostages in Lebanon, it would be rewarded by a stampede of Western diplomats, bankers, foreign-aid officials and arms merchants beating a path to Tehran...