Aid Consortium News Today

Today, we had a series of meeting at the white house and on capitol hill. We met with executives of the airline industry, executives of commercial labs, executives of Nursing Homes. And our team also met with the republican and democrat caucuses in the house of representatives. And we were pleased to learn that just shortly ago the house of representatives passed a federal funding bill by virtually unanimous margin. It will now move to the senate. The legislation implements the president s visio...

The country has defaulted on $51 billion USD of foreign debt, while warning of worsening fuel and food shortages amidst continuing public outrage.

PARIS: Pakistan will gain respite from foreign repayments, although not on interest, till July 1973, and secure ...

INDULGENCE in platitudes and showering of praises by visiting dignitaries are generally prompted by courtesy and need not be taken at their face value. But Mr. Robert McNamara’s tribute to India

LONDON: A major split on the nature and degree of pressure on Pakistan through suspension of development and non-project aid for the 1971-72 fiscal year, has arisen between the United States, Britain, France and some other important member states of the Aid Consortium. In sharp contrast with the joint communique issued after the talks Indian Foreign Minister Sar­dar Sawaran Singh had here early last week with British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home, which called for an acceptable polit...

LONDON: Indian troops have started digging trenches at a number of points along India-East Pakistan border. …...