1.   But with foreign assistance to developing world agriculture in Decline, that will be harder.

2.   Technical assistance Foreign technical assistance has also been important.

3.   The heavy dependence on foreign technical assistance has had many disadvantages.

4.   Although Zaire is richly endowed with natural resources, its economy is near collapse, and many assume that rebuilding the country will require huge amounts of foreign assistance.

5.   Any such aid would have to be approved by a Congress that has been unremittingly hostile to most forms of foreign assistance.

6.   As roads and airports are repaired, foreign assistance has also begun arriving in Pereira for distribution throughout the entire quake-ravaged region.

7.   As with many other Europeans, the Dutch are sometimes ashamed to admit they required so much foreign assistance to recover from the war.

8.   A quarter of a million homes were destroyed or badly damaged during the war and are gradually being rebuilt with foreign assistance.

9.   After three years of military rule, it is is desperate for foreign assistance in everything from medical care to judicial reform.

10.   But with a Republican-dominated Congress determined to put its stamp on foreign policy and slash foreign assistance, anxiety is running higher than ever.