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Thus the administration of the foreign aid program was left just as it was: beset and beleaguered, and known largely for its failures. Those failures are well publicized: some ill-advised projects and scattered cases of misuse of funds by corrupt recipients. In an odd Gresham's Law, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Downs and Ups of Foreign Aid | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

The discomfiting question remains: what makes these films so riveting, when we would have little interest or patience for the same stuff on paper or in the hands of a less talented director? It is largely Carpenter's gleeful knowingness, in constructing a situation and co-ordinating an action, with...

Author: By Larry Shapiro, | Title: Nuts and Jolts | 3/23/1979 | See Source »

"Our federal policy must be well organized to be fully efficient, comprehensive and coordinated," Andrus said, adding "presently our managing of natural resources is scattered, cumbersome, and wasteful."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Andrus Calls Government Resource Policy Wasteful | 3/16/1979 | See Source »

The strange silence of reportage from Nicaragua does not mean, however, that the violence has ended. "The level of pressure is just tremendous," a recently returned observor said last week, noting "there are checkpoints virtually everywhere." Scattered reports indicate that people are dying (mostly at the hands of the 10...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Nicaragua: La Lucha Continua | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

DIED. Mustafa Barzani, 75, Kurdish nationalist leader who waged guerrilla war for 40 years in a futile attempt to win a homeland in northeastern Iraq for his people; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Wishing to establish an autonomous Kurdistan for his 12 million Muslim tribesmen scattered throughout Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 12, 1979 | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

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