Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Relaxed East-West relations also opened major new export markets. In the 1960s American farm products were sold mainly to Britain and The Netherlands or given away to India, Egypt and other developing nations as foreign aid. Through the '50s, and well into the '60s, the U.S. simply did not know what to do with its surplus grain and stored it at a cost of billions. But in the past decade the surplus production began being exported to the Soviet Union, China and newly rich Japan. Americans take justified pride in high technology exports like computers...
There is a variety of interagency committees in the Executive Branch, backed up by special laws and watchdog Congressmen, to make sure that foreign aid requests are vetted with an eye to whether the recipient country tortures political prisoners or is embarked on its own Manhattan Project...
...Afghanistan last week, the aftershocks of the invasion were causing tremors all over Southwest Asia. In neighboring Pakistan, which must now worry about Soviet incursions across its border in pursuit of Muslim Afghan rebels, the unsteady government of President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq appeared ready to accept emergency military aid from the U.S. and its allies. In India the stunning resurgence of Indira Gandhi, long a friend of Moscow, raised the prospect of an ominous tilt toward the Soviet Union in the subcontinent's largest country. In Iran, Ayatullah Khomeini's chaotic regime now had a Soviet threat...
...government is less than enthusiastic about U.S. aid...
...embassy in Islamabad last November; by the time the siege was lifted, seven hours later, two Americans were dead. The U.S., meanwhile, had consistently obstructed Pakistani efforts to build a uranium-enrichment plant-which would give the country a nuclear weapons capability -had cut off economic and military aid, and had criticized the execution last April of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Such actions, complained the government-owned Pakistan Times, "amounted almost to interference in our internal affairs." Said a State Department official of the embassy attack: "That left a scar that hasn't really healed...