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Article: The old guard feeds at the aid trough: ex-Soviet apparatchiks get rich off U.S. grain. (food distribution)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- August 23, 1993
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Sometime in the next week or so, a big American cargo ship will slip its lines, bump away from mossy pilings and begin pushing eastward toward Russia. The ship may carry corn or wheat, soybean meal or butter--the first installment of the $700 million in food aid President Clinton pledged to Boris Yeltsin during their April summit in Vancouver. The program is called Food for Progress, and it is in the best tradition of American foreign aid, designed to assist a friendly government in distress while it provides the farmers who deliver the commodities a fair price for their product.
For all the manifest good intentions, however, all is not as it seems with the ...