1.   The Soviets were also initiating an economic assistance program for selected Third World countries.

2.   To Athens, the Peloponnesians offered economic assistance to maintain their destitute people, and even a new home within the Peloponnese.

3.   ...a viable programme of economic assistance.

4.   Western governments swiftly condemned the brutality and threatened to block economic assistance to Romania.

5.   The final communiqu, however, made little mention of economic assistance to eastern Europe.

6.   Transport problems resulting from the withdrawal of cheap Soviet oil supplies and the drastic cut in other forms of Soviet economic assistance were also identified as factors.

7.   The official anti-crisis programme of Soviet Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov, supported by a moderate-conservative alliance, placed less reliance on direct Western economic assistance.

8.   And one of the most important factors in that would be economic assistance from Japan.

9.   And while the United States may well want to provide economic assistance now, it will have to swallow an unpleasant reality.

10.   Another subject was American economic assistance, a reward for cooperating with Washington in its anti-terrorism campaign.