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...loan payments on the condition that the savings be channeled into health care, agricultural development and free primary education. Over the past few years, debt relief has been touted by everyone from Irish rock star Bono to boxing champ Muhammad Ali as one of the best ways to help lift the world's poorest countries out of poverty. According to the World Bank, even nations in the hipc program - which was extended last week - pay on average more than 12% of their revenues each year to creditors from the developed world. Loan repayments often exceed spending on health care...
...government reimburses them: $A25.70 for a consultation of 15 min. or less. Labor under Mark Latham, a Whitlam prot?g?, has pledged to give doctors an extra $A5 for each bulk-billed consultation, plus monthly bonuses if they reach certain targets. Latham has affirmed Labor's "rock-solid determination" to lift the proportion of consultations that are bulk billed from 70% to 80%. Last week he made an additional pledge to make more visits to specialists free as part of a $A1 billion injection into public hospitals...
...upper house of Congress. A handsome, graying man, he is an independent Republican and a self-made millionaire whose immigrant father came from Kwangtung province to work in the Oahu cane fields for $12 a month. The seventh of eleven children, Fong decided as a small boy to lift himself out of poverty, worked his way through high school by selling newspapers, shining shoes and caddying ... The University of Hawaii was tough, but Hiram Fong got through in three years with honors, with a bewildering collection of side jobs that ranged from bill collector to tourist guide. After graduation...
...Sept. 2 U.N. Security Council resolution called for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Lebanon. The withdrawal was part of a wider redeployment exercise involving a total of 3,000 soldiers. The Thaw Continues LIBYA In a further sign of Tripoli's diplomatic rehabilitation, E.U. ambassadors agreed to lift both trade sanctions and a ban on arms sales to Libya. The decision, which must be ratified at a meeting of E.U. Foreign Ministers in mid-October, came two days after U.S. President George W. Bush formally lifted America's own economic sanctions. Libya remains on the U.S. list...
...respond to the veterans and, more incredibly, concluded that the public would be turned off if it did. So Kerry tried to ignore the whole thing, making two costly errors at once: he allowed a political attack to go unanswered, and he signaled to Americans that he wouldn't lift a finger to defend himself. In an election year that at bottom is about who can best defend the homeland, Kerry's refusal to strike back hard and fast when his own hide was on the line was a startling misreading of what voters are looking for in a leader...