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- NATION, Page 29American NotesWASHINGTONA Bold Foreign Aid Proposal
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- The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe could mean a
- reduced U.S. defense budget. And it means that America must
- spend more to support the thrust toward liberalization. To get
- around the money crunch, Senate Republican leader Robert Dole
- last week proposed cutting 5% from the funds allotted to
- foreign-aid recipients.
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- The savings in the $14.6 billion foreign-aid budget would go
- to East European nations and drug-fighting countries in South
- America. Nearly half the total is earmarked for five countries:
- Israel ($3 billion), Egypt ($2.1 billion), Turkey ($610
- million), the Philippines ($360 million) and Pakistan ($490
- million). Cutting aid to Israel is too sensitive an issue for
- most lawmakers, and aid to Egypt has been inviolate since the
- 1978 Camp David accords. Dole's idea may be politically
- inexpedient, but it underlines the need for flexibility at a
- time of rapid change.
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