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...measure is longer on sticks than carrots. If adopted by the Senate, it would immediately provide $30 million for nonlethal supplies and begin payment of $70 million in military aid in September. The money, to be used for badly needed training, transport and communications equipment, would be released in installments if the President certifies--and a congressional panel concurs --that peace negotiations were stalemated. In addition, unspecified "heavy weapons" included in the package cannot be delivered until February of next year. Though the Pentagon has not provided details, these weapons may include shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles...
...area of proven vulnerability is finance. Last year, after several American and European banks demanded immediate payment on short-term loans to South Africa because of the deteriorating situation, the country virtually panicked. The level of the national currency, the rand, plummeted, and in September the government declared a moratorium on repaying its $14 billion in short-term bank loans. Says Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Seaga: "If Pretoria will not listen to arguments based on rights, it will listen to arguments based on rands." But no one expects measures against South African trade to be nearly as effective...
Allowing federal aid recepients choice in their options of health payment plans could reduce costs, he said. One procedure would allow individual enrollment in the private health plans such as Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs), he said...
...prospective payment" system of such plans requires enrollees to pay a lump sum in advance. Since the HMOs are going to make no more than this fixed amount, "there is strong incentive to keep the patient healthy, to prevent sickness, and to keep the period of care short," he said...
Other panelists supported the idea of integrating HMOs and other plans into Medicare. Prospective payment plans have shortened hospital stays and reduced the number of admissions, said Joseph P. Newhouse '63, a senior fellow of the Rand Corporation...