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rGAO Observations tf Scme United States Foreign Affairs
Operations]. February dl, 1976. 29 pp.
Testimcny before the Senate Committee on Appropriations: Foreign
Operations SuL-.ommittee; by J. K. Fasick, Director,
International Div.
Issue Area: International Economic and Military Programs (600).
Contact: International Div.
Budget Function: International Affairs (150).
Organization Concerned: Agency for International Development;
United Nations: Food and Agriculture Organization;
Export-Import Bank of the United States; International Labor
Organization; World Health Organization; ACTION: Peace
Corps; United Nations: Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization.
Congressional Relevance: Senate Committee on Appropriations.
Foreign Operations Subcommittee.
Middle East countries receive the major portion of the
appropriations for security supporting assistance, which is not
signi:.icantly greater that appropriations fcr development
assistance. Egypt could not provide the necessary manpower,
local currency support, and mrnagement resources to handle the
volume and type of U.S. assistance that was planned. Rather than
provide sirely needed rz.w material and commodity assistance,
capital projects were programmed uith consequent severe strains
on Egyptian capab3lities. Policy considera.ticns relating to
Middle Ea1st jil and peace arl at the hecrt f the bilateral
relation with Sauidi Arabia. The enormous volume of sales is due
Trgely to infrastructure prograbs, rather than lethal arms,
which were rel.tivly unsophisticated in Saudi. Arabia. The
executive branch is Lt organized to assure effective
participation in U.N. organizations, having no scund policy
objectives and needing improvement in program planning,
budgeting, and evaluation. Food shortage prcblems are due in
part tc postharvest handling and storage. Study so far has
indicated that providing family planaing services alone may not
be the univer.,al answer to the population problem; people must
first be motivated to want to limit their families. AID and the
Export-Import Bank loans-to-foreign-countries prcgrdms should be
reassessed, since there are a number of outstanding loans to
countries with bad credit reputations. The Bank is working on
solutions and AID could develop trade policy with these
countries, who have fixed their economic growth prospects on the
financial resources -'hat expand trade. Despite recent
initiatives to liberalize trade through tariff preferences and
other mechanisms, the lesser developed countries have been
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