U.S. aid programme announced
NZPA-Reuter Washington The United States Secretary of State, Mr George Shultz, has announced plans for a high-level review of American foreign aid amid repeated warnings from Congress that this year's $14.5 billion aid bill is in deep trouble.
Opposition to foreign aid has been hardened by increasing budget austerity at home, and for the second year in succession Congress appears unlikely to approve a separate aid bill. Mr Shultz, told the Senate Budget Committee that a commission to be headed by
the former Deputy Defence Secretary, Mr Frank Carlucci, would examine foreign aid and its relationship to United States interests. The commission will include Mr Lane Kirkland, president of the A.F.L.-C.1.0. labour confederation, and Mr Laurence Silberman, a
former ambassador to Yugoslavia. It will make a preliminary report by July 1. This year, the foreign economic and military aid programme is running on a resolution holding aid at last year’s levels, $1.25 billion below the administration’s reouest.
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