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Article: Questions for Shultz
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 27, 1987
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It is hard to explain to foreign friends why a man as well
connected as George Shultz has to go up to Capitol Hill these days
rattling a tin cup and pleading with Congress to restore the State
Department's budget cuts.
"If we are to continue our role as a world power," the secretary
of state warned an apparently flinty-hearted House subcommittee last
week, "we must be prepared to fund a foreign affairs policy and a
budget for operations of the size and dimension to support it."
Why doesn't Shultz simply turn to the sultan of Brunei, or those
other oil-rich covert spendthrifts, the Saudis, and ask them to pitch
in a couple of extra hundred million to bolster foreign aid and save
the seven ...