Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations for 1980: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session, Volume 1; Volume 122U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979 - Economic assistance, American |
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... problem of security against guerrilla or subversive attack . General GRAHAM . Yes , sir . Mr. LONG . The Defense Department still has not asked for enough money to provide better security . General GRAHAM . Yes , sir . Mr. LONG . I am ...
... problem of security against guerrilla or subversive attack . General GRAHAM . Yes , sir . Mr. LONG . The Defense Department still has not asked for enough money to provide better security . General GRAHAM . Yes , sir . Mr. LONG . I am ...
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... problem even if we exer- cised the land options we have in the Northern Marianas and any we might obtain later in Micronesia . There simply is no place large enough to accommodate , for example , the 44,000 acre Crow Valley Weapons ...
... problem even if we exer- cised the land options we have in the Northern Marianas and any we might obtain later in Micronesia . There simply is no place large enough to accommodate , for example , the 44,000 acre Crow Valley Weapons ...
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... problems of a serious nature in the Philippines , but I cannot accept the charac- terization of the government in Manila as one of the most repres- sive or oppressive governments on the face of the Earth . Mr. LONG . Not even if you ...
... problems of a serious nature in the Philippines , but I cannot accept the charac- terization of the government in Manila as one of the most repres- sive or oppressive governments on the face of the Earth . Mr. LONG . Not even if you ...
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... problem , and the failure to achieve this would have caused a new problem . Mr. LONG . Would the gentleman yield ? Mr. LEHMAN . Sure . Mr. LONG . I think you keep acting as if it were all or nothing , as if we had not gone through with ...
... problem , and the failure to achieve this would have caused a new problem . Mr. LONG . Would the gentleman yield ? Mr. LEHMAN . Sure . Mr. LONG . I think you keep acting as if it were all or nothing , as if we had not gone through with ...
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... problems of their own communities . More- over , we assume that coummunity members in those countries act in concert and can be especially well qualified to devise realistic solutions to their problems when they have the closest and ...
... problems of their own communities . More- over , we assume that coummunity members in those countries act in concert and can be especially well qualified to devise realistic solutions to their problems when they have the closest and ...
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