Word: programing
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...city councillor from Vilnius, Lithuania, is visiting Cambridge to learn about the workings of local democratic government. Gregorii B. Maistrenko, a high school teacher from Leningrad, is visiting the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School along with one other Russian teacher and 10 students as part of an education exchange program...
Such confusion and delay are all too characteristic of the whole U.S. foreign-aid program. Parsimony as well: Bush's request of $14.6 billion for fiscal 1990, which began Oct. 1, is only $1.5 billion higher than the $13.1 billion spent nine years ago. Moreover, nearly half of all aid is allocated to the so-called Big Five -- Israel, Egypt, Pakistan, Turkey and the Philippines -- mostly to fulfill old commitments. That leaves pitifully little to further such new goals as nurturing fledgling allies. Bush's request for aid to % Namibia, a new African democracy, is an all-but-invisible half...
Influential voices in Congress have been calling for a thorough review and possible overhaul of the entire foreign-aid program, and Bush last week pronounced himself "interested" in the idea. The Administration, however, is undecided about what it wants. Some Bush advisers have proposed foreign aid as a topic of one of the five commencement addresses the President will deliver this month, but so far they cannot agree on what he ought to say. Some senior officials would be content with an enlarged discretionary fund that the President could direct as he sees fit. The added flexibility, these officials suggest...
Some smugglers actually capitalize on specific IRCA programs. Max Dulay, a travel agent in Manila, earned $3 million bringing 300 to 400 Filipinos into the U.S. over a two-year period ending with his arrest in 1988. Dulay cashed in on the Special Agricultural Workers program, which gave legal status to farm workers who could claim at least 90 days of employment in the U.S. prior to 1986. Dulay used fake passports to bring small groups of Filipinos to Los Angeles (and sometimes to New York City and Chicago). He then transported them to a farm in central California...
...million undocumented aliens to obtain legal status. During that time, the number of aliens captured annually fell by half, from a peak of 1.8 million in 1986. Although supporters applaud this as proof that would-be illegals are staying home, a more plausible explanation is that the legalization program helped to augment -- not reduce -- the illicit flow. Even more telling, the influx is rising once again. Since December, the INS' monthly apprehension figures are averaging 50% higher than the year before. "It's getting back to business as usual," warns Arthur Helton, an immigration expert at the Lawyers Committee...