Central African Republic Recipe
USIS Washington File: TEXT: USAID'S ATWOOD BEFORE HOUSE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
FREEDOM Support Act funds will also help us redouble our efforts in Central Asia to further develop the business, legal and regulatory environment necessary to underpin the massive oil and gas investment which is likely over the next decade. Central Asia and the Caucasus are critical to U.S. strategic interests and world energy supplies. We will continue supporting the Administration's TransCaspian initiative to facilitate appropriate East-West transport routes and environmentally sustainable approaches to energy development through bilateral and regional technical assistance. This will also allow us to fund reforms to promote energy restructuring, energy efficiency and other actions to address global climate change. A third of the top focus countries for USAID climate change activities are in the New Independent States, including Russia, Ukraine and the Central Asian Republics. In Central Asia, we will also increase efforts focussed on infectious disease and other health issues, ... [Read More]
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/1/Source: Central Intelligence Agency, Job 79 R 01012A, ODDI Registry of NIE and SNIE Files, Box 184. Secret. A note on the cover sheet reads: "Submitted by the Director of Central Intelligence. The following intelligence organizations participated in the preparation of this estimate: The Central Intelligence Agency and the intelligence organizations of the Departments of State, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and The Joint Staff." All members of the U.S. Intelligence Board concurred in this estimate on July 5, except the Atomic Energy Commission representative and the Assistant Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who abstained on the grounds that the subject was outside their jurisdiction. ... [Read More]
Fulbrighters Abroad – Personal Accounts of Global Experiences
Another day I was invited to lunch by a charming, old country doctor whose candor could produce an ouch. He refused to let me buy the lunch and told me not to feel guilty that "I decided to feed you, instead of fixing my car." And he says he has eaten a rattlesnake, a donkey and a horse. But I suspect that he said that to make what he probably construed to be the African tribesman sitting across from him feel comfortable. ... [Read More]
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