21.   Seoul has already promised large amounts of development assistance to Pyongyang in exchange for a real detente.

22.   Some analysts say the Clinton administration stumbled by failing to emphasize development assistance in Plan Colombia.

23.   Spending by the U.S. government on development assistance in Africa has declined in the past decade.

24.   That poses a double challenge for a new wave of development assistance.

25.   The crackdown began as the Burmese foreign minister, Ohn Gyaw, was in Japan appealing for the full resumption of development assistance.

26.   The poverty initiative, if approved by Congress next year, would help provide needed education, health care and economic development assistance throughout the Mississippi delta region.

27.   The United States, for its part, offered to grant crop development assistance to the impoverished nation, which is facing severe food shortages.

28.   They advocated a new era of development assistance that includes the private sector investment and also called on world loan organizations to ease up on restrictive policies.

29.   Too often, short-term military, political and economic interests, rather than the goals of poverty eradication and human development, have shaped development assistance.

30.   Wertheimer and Sharansky make specific reference to the Marshall Plan in their advocacy of economic development assistance for the Palestinians, while military officials deliberately avoid it.