Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations for 1981: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, Parte 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980 |
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Administration agriculture American areas assistance programs Atlantic Highway Beirut BENNET bilateral blankets budget BUSHNELL Cash Central America Chairman Chimaltenango Christian Church Committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY cooperation coordination cost democratic developing countries development assistance Development Bank disaster donors earthquake economic efforts Egypt EHRLICH El Salvador equipment fiscal year 1981 funds going Guatemala City Honduras housing human rights ICRC IDCA increase Institute ISTC junta KEMP LARA-BRAUD Latin America Lebanon LEHMAN LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LICROSS loan LONG MCHUGH ment military assistance million missions multilateral multilateral development banks Nicaragua operating organizations overseas peace Peace Corps percent personnel planning political President problems projects proposed question RAULLERSON reconstruction Red Cross reform rehabilitation repression reprogramming request Response rural Salvador Salvadoran Sandinistas sector staff statement Swiss francs technologies tents tion U.S. Government UNDRO UNICEF violence vote World Bank YATES YOUNG
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