Word: spigots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...economic policy doesn't address the peasant's concerns, if the cities are bleeding the peasants as in most of Africa, then you cannot have democracy," he says. But such approaches have kept the foreign aid dollars from flowing. Some Ethiopians are resentful that the foreign aid spigot is still dry. "You said you would help those countries that formed democracies," says Tekola Hagos, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs. "Where's the beef? Please send cash." But Meles appears more tolerant. "For us there is a commitment to democracy even without aid," he says, "so whatever funding the U.S. gives...
...mind had broken years before. He survived on technique. Ernest taught me how to forage for an all-American diet: wait politely behind a fast-food place at closing time and accept the unsold hamburgers and fries. A third problem, keeping clean, was difficult but manageable: a cold-water spigot in the morning...
Last December tiny Benin in western Africa dropped Marxism-Leninism as the state ideology and vowed to support private enterprise. Nicaragua, which over the past year has watched Moscow turn off the arms spigot, is in the final throes of an election process that, whatever the outcome, shows promise of being a legitimate democratic exercise. Even Libya's erratic Muammar Gaddafi, a regular Soviet arms customer, is cultivating closer ties with moderate Arab leaders. Most Soviet client states are making similar adjustments to accommodate the fast-changing times. A look at some of the most important...