FrontLines: Decembers/Januaries Past
FrontLines - December-January 2009-10
1969: USAID loan guarantees
totaling $41 million were
announced for energy sector
investments in Korea. The Dec.
3 edition of FrontLines noted
that the Export-Import Bank provided
an additional $10 million
in financing for the deal. The
316-megawatt power plant was
planned for construction on an
island in Inchon Harbor.
1979: The Dec. 20 issue of
FrontLines noted that USAID
mission staffs in Bangladesh,
Yemen, Syria, and Lebanon
were “thinned-out” following
the student-led takeover of the
U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran.
The evacuees from the four
countries joined evacuees
from Pakistan who arrived in
November following the
burning of the U.S. Embassy.
1989: FrontLines ran a full
page profile of the Agency’s
program in South Africa. The
program was first established in
1985 by an executive order signed by President Ronald
Reagan. USAID’s South
Africa Director Dennis Barrett
was quoted as saying: “Unlike
other USAID programs, the
focus of the South African
program is fundamentally
political; to hasten the end of
apartheid and to prepare
blacks for a leadership role in
a post-apartheid, democratic
South Africa.” The articles
noted that the program was
unique among USAID countries
because there was no
South African government
involvement. As of 1989, the
Agency’s South Africa program
was the largest in sub-
Saharan Africa.
1999: Noting that winter
was setting in again in Kosovo,
FrontLines reviewed an almost
year-long effort to provide
assistance to more than threequarters
of a million refugees
from the former Yugoslav
province.
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