Word: mcpherson
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...stop the use of American dollars for such programs, and last week they scored a victory. The Agency for International Development said it would withhold $10 million from the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, which has sent money to China for birth control. Instead, said M. Peter McPherson, the agency's administrator, the money would be "reprogrammed" toward family planning services in other countries...
...emergency operations in Ethiopia, after inspecting Ibnet, the evacuation was carried out with "too much haste and inadequate preparation." At week's end relief workers reported that at least 30,000 refugees were "missing" and still presumed to be on the road. For half of them, warned M. Peter McPherson, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the walk could amount to a "death sentence...
...weeks ago, Peter McPherson, Reagan's foreign aid administrator, appeared before conservative critics to explain grants to famine victims in Africa and the U.N.'s fund for population control. Paul Weyrich, director of the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, turned on McPherson at one point and said, "You're a disgrace. You are unfit to be in your current position." Weyrich's intemperance arose from his singular fears that American funds could be used for abortions and to feed starving people under Marxist governments...
...resettlement program has been criticized as "unwise" by M. Peter McPherson, the White House's administrator for the Agency for International Development. Says he: "It looks to us as though it may well be a situation of moving starving people from one point to another point, where they will just starve in a new location." McPherson's assessment has drawn a stinging rebuff from the Ethiopians. In Washington, Charge d'Affaires Tamene Eshete accused resettlement critics of attempting to "perpetuate starvation" in his country. The northern provinces, Eshete said, are "totally barren," and "there is no point in keeping those...
Dawit's musings infuriated M. Peter McPherson, U.S. administrator of the Agency for International Development. The Ethiopian charges were "just absurd," he said. "Frankly, I think this is the classic example of biting the hand that feeds you." U.S. officials note that Ethiopia's Marxist government had spent more than $100 million on its tenth anniversary celebration last September. Said a Western diplomat in Addis Ababa: "Once they got the anniversary out of the way, they could turn their attention to the drought...