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Israel is already America's biggest foreign-aid client. This year it received $1.2 billion in economic assistance and $1.4 billion in direct military aid. But faced with a 445% annual inflation rate and dwindling foreign-exchange reserves, the new government of Prime Minister Shimon Peres estimates it will need $4.1 billion in U.S. military and economic aid for fiscal 1986 (a $1.5 billion increase), and some $8 billion more in the following two years. Peres, in turn, promises harsh economic austerity measures that will nearly double Israel's unemployment rate, to 8%, and force real wages down to their...
...Bonn, Duarte lunched with a fellow Christian Democrat, Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and a $17.8 million foreign-aid program was signed. In Paris, Duarte met with French President François Mitterrand, whose government recognizes El Salvador's Marxist-led guerrillas as a "representative political force." Afterward, Duarte announced that the French embassy in El Salvador will reopen after being closed for five years. Said Duarte: "French policy has not changed. The situation in El Salvador has changed, especially after my election...
...step that nobody advocates, could do the job. Others contend the real solution would be to build up the Mexican economy so that it could offer good jobs to those now crossing the border. But that is wishful thinking: American voters are in no mood to approve the enormous foreign-aid sums that would be required, and even if they were, there is no guarantee that any such effort could cure Mexico's many economic problems. In the end the Simpson-Mazzoli approach seems likely to get an unenthusiastic go-ahead for the simplest reason: there is a growing...
...Haig is no dove. He has the soldier's instinct to deal from strength. But he wants to talk with the Soviets about arms limitations, to heed the protests in Europe and across the U.S. against nuclear weapons, to keep our foreign-aid programs strong, to use words instead of bullets. Haig's mission to Mexico City last week, yet another maneuver in the cause of restraint, was designed to ease fears of American military intervention in the Caribbean, and to try to get Mexico to help ease the crises in Nicaragua and El Salvador. The Secretary...
Thus planeload by sweltering planeload did the remaining 1,500 Soviet personnel and some 45 Cuban comrades depart Somalia, one of the Kremlin's oldest foreign-aid footholds in black Africa. As one group was preparing to leave, an American Air Force 707 landed, bearing a U.S. congressional delegation on its way to lunch with Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre. The delegation's long-scheduled arrival was sheer coincidence, to be sure, but the symbolism was unmistakable...