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...Ridenour, director of Indiana's natural resources department. He was campaign finance chief for Dan Quayle when the Vice President won election to the Senate in 1980. Ridenour's new boss is expected to be Constance Harrington, a former attorney at the department and daughter of a Republican Party fund raiser. She is in line to be named Assistant Secretary of Fish and Wildlife and Parks. Said a department employee about Secretary Lujan: "It looks like he is filling the ranks with folks who brought in the cash...
...pushing the Sandinista regime toward democracy. The bargain ends, for the moment at least, a fractious eight-year battle between the Democrat-controlled Congress and the Executive Branch over how to handle Central America. The product of intense lobbying by Secretary of State James Baker, the agreement to fund the contras but not any more fighting may mark a sea change in U.S. policy. "I think we all have to admit," said Baker, "that the ((Reagan)) policy basically failed because we were not united...
India is fast emerging as a global military power. New Delhi's defense budget has doubled in real terms during the '80s and has in fact outstripped the government's ability to fund it. The 1989-90 budget, unveiled earlier this month, froze defense spending at $8.5 billion, though some estimate the actual figure to be as high as $11 billion. Indian scientists and engineers are immersed in nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs. The 1,362,000- strong armed forces, the fourth largest in the world (after the Soviet Union, with 5,096,000 troops; China, with 3.2 million...
...help, but not with money. "It would be hard to move legislatively," said a top presidential aide, in an era of tight budgets. But, he added, "if they make the kind of changes they ought to make," the Administration would back Poland and Hungary with the International Monetary Fund, support extending trade waivers, increase high-level contacts and boost exchange programs. Ambassador Palmer recommends joint ventures and small loans directed to specific projects and placed with small commercial banks. He wants President Bush to make an East European tour...
...Private funding can also help. This month the bloc's first privately financed business school will open in Budapest. A Rockefeller Brothers Fund program assists private agriculture in Poland. But so far the private stake has been small. In the past, the East bloc regimes have disdained such capitalist assistance. Now Western investors worry about instability. "If they want new money and new investment from the West, they've got to create an economic and social climate so Western business executives will sense they're dealing with a stable situation, unfettered by bureaucracy, ((with)) a normal return they can repatriate...