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...Algerians sought no financial compensation for evacuating the hostages or sending doctors to examine them. "How we will pay them back I just don't know," said Ambassador Haynes, adding: "Yes, they have a right to expect something in return." The U.S. clearly cannot repay Algeria by altering its own foreign policy. But no one would be surprised if the Algerians shrewdly cashed in their IOUs in the form of lucrative long-term gas contracts. -By Frederick Painton...
...Ottawa government has provided air transportation that the refugees must ultimately repay. Private sponsorship groups and churches have supplied housing and taken over additional details of resettlement for most of the boat people, as well as some help for the 23,000 other Indochinese refugees Canada has accepted. This degree of personal involvement among Canadians has given an emotional boost to the homesick refugees...
That would help considerably, since the magazine has to repay $1.75 million in start-up costs. Says unbowed Competitor Merrill: "They've got problems...
...which is why Americans no longer heed the warning in Hamlet: "Neither a borrower nor a lender be." People take out loans in the expectation that they will be able to pay them off later with cheaper dollars. And in recent years they have been right. Borrowers can now repay their debts with dollars worth just 63? in 1975 terms. That view is an important factor behind the sharp increase in consumer installment debt, which since 1975 had gone from $172.4 billion to $305.5 billion by the end Of last October...
...program differs from the older Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) because parents, not students, apply for the PLUS loans, Johnson said. The PLUS program also requires parents to begin to repay the loan 60 days after disbursement, while under HELP, "the kid has to begin repayment within six months of graduating or dropping out" of college, he added...