Word: aid
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...Horizon: Two U.S.-trained Colombian battalions are scheduled to launch a major offensive into guerrilla-held territory in January. The U.S. is due to release further installments of its aid package shortly before Clinton leaves office, for which the President will probably once again waive the usual requirement that Colombia show progress on human rights issues. Negotiations between the government and the rebels are going nowhere, and there's a growing sentiment in Colombian politics to stop negotiations and seek a return of the one-third of the country they've handed over to the guerillas in earlier deals. That...
...been the impoverishment of millions of ordinary Russians and the empowerment of a tiny oligarchy whose roots in many cases were in the underworld. Yeltsin generally raised no objections to Washington's foreign policy initiatives as long as Russia remained the recipient of billions of dollars of Western aid. But once corruption made aid impossible, Russia was essentially cut loose...
...relationship has been one of the Clinton administration's success stories, as unglamorous and even unseemly as the technique may have seemed. The North Koreans have hit desperate times since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and their weapons programs have been widely viewed as a means of extorting aid from the West. But providing food relief may have helped walk Pyongyang away from doing something really stupid, and this has been generally applauded by U.S. allies on North Korea's doorstep. But Congress isn't particularly comfortable about the idea of bailing out a Stalinist basket-case simply because...
...North Carolina medical researcher who developed the first effective treatment for hemophilia; in Chapel Hill, N.C. Brinkhous' early research showed that some hemophiliacs could not produce a bloodclotting protein that was later dubbed Factor VIII. One of his seminal discoveries was a way to use blood plasma to aid in replacing the missing protein...
...policy levers of the Cold War era - the targeted projection of U.S. economic power. If it weren't for the Marshall Plan, most of Western Europe would have gone communist at the end of World War II - at the ballot box. Plowing billions of dollars of aid and investment into Europe also created the domestic demand that boosted the U.S. economy into its golden age of postwar growth. But the idea of targeting aid and investment in pursuit of foreign policy goals is anathema to today's political and business community. No Marshall Plan would pass this Congress. And that...