1. And as Mexico struggles to lure back investors, a movement to back out of the American aid commitment has erupted in Congress. 2. As a result, McCaffrey said he supports what is already a huge U.S. aid commitment to Colombia. 3. But as college costs have soared and federal aid to colleges has fallen, the ability to meet historic aid commitments has declined. 4. Clinton indicated earlier this week that it will cost billions, not only in financial aid commitments, but possibly in military assistance as well. 5. German officials pressed other countries instead to keep to their aid commitments. 6. He made it clear that he would try to write the military aid commitment into a Senate resolution of support for the operation. 7. Musharraf stressed that he regards the assistance Bush promised as the beginning of a deepening U.S. aid commitment. 8. They said support for anti-American Islamic radicals would grow if Washington reneged on its aid commitments. 9. But summit negotiators were making little progress toward strengthening aid commitments here. 10. Chirac told a news conference he was concerned the United States, Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada were falling behind in aid commitments. |