Lawmakers - Inter-American Foundation
Lawmakers - Inter-American Foundation
Lawmakers - Inter-American Foundation
Lawmakers - Inter-American Foundation
Paul Duke Intro report on Inter-American Foundation, a small agency the subject of controversy.
Lawmakers - Inter-American Foundation
Linda Wertheimer report - The Inter-American Foundation is an arm of Congress that gives small aid grants to Latin America. Reagan appointees on the board have rebelled to try to fire the head of the foundation.
Lawmakers - Inter-American Foundation
House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing on Inter-American Foundation. Representative Gerry Studds (D - Massachusetts), Let me ask first, what I guess is an obvious question, why was Mr. Bell fired? Langhorne Motley, Inter-American Foundation, Basically it was a matter of confidence of the members of the board. It was about Mr. Bell s ability to take the foundation in the manner and the direction which the majority of the board wanted to go. Representative Gerry Studds (D - Massachusetts), What did he do wrong? Or what did he not do right? Were they sins of omission or sins of comission? Representative Sam Gejdenson (D - Connecticut) It s my fear that we make significant institutional changes for short term either ideological or other goals.
Lawmakers - Inter-American Foundation
DO NOT USE clip of newspaper article. VO discusses creation of Inter-American Foundation.
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Representative Dante Fascell (D - Florida) on the Inter-American Foundation. It became entirely different from an ordinary aid program because the private board ran it and had control over it. And it was without regard to the short term foreign policy objectives of the United States and without regard to politics. So that in dealing with people overseas, they would not think it was a government instrumentality.
Lawmakers - Inter-American Foundation
Clip of Inter-American Foundation film: Shots of Latin American sheep farmers using electric clippers to harvest wool, Young women load raw wool into a processing machine. A pleasant female voiceover describes the cooperative wool operation as a typical project funded by IAF.
Lawmakers - Inter-American Foundation
Representative Henry Hyde (R - Illinois) in office, Says the IAF is an "experiment", but he's supported it and it's worked well. I ve supported the Inter-American Foundation. I think it s a good idea. It s an experiment, but it has worked well. And it s something we can be proud of.
Lawmakers - Inter-American Foundation
Representative Dante Fascell (D - Florida) says the IAF should have bipartisan support. It should be just as acceptable to Republicans as Democrats, conservatives or liberals, or whatever.
Lawmakers - Inter-American Foundation
Ronald Reagan taking House Rostrum for State of the Union address.
Lawmakers - Inter-American Foundation
C/S of booklet published by Conservative Think Tank - The Heritage Foundation on IAF (Inter-American Foundation). WERTHEIMER v.o.-the HERITAGE FOUNDATION accused the IAF of giving funds to "the far left".
Lawmakers - Inter-American Foundation
Ronald Reagan taking with flag behind him.
Lawmakers - Inter-American Foundation
Representative Dante Fascell (D - Florida) says It seemed that this administration was determined to affect some sort of ideological change and that they were not happy with the way the Inter-American Foundation was making its grants, the people they were dealing with. And they wanted to put a different cast to it.
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DO NOT USE C/U newspaper editorial criticizing the IAF changes. Vo while Congress was in recess in Dec. 1983, Reagan appointees on the IAF board voted to fire the President, Peter Bell.
Lawmakers - Inter-American Foundation
Representative Henry Hyde (R - Illinois) says, "I think the real question is, who are the people who have been appointed to the foundation. I m satisfied they are highly qualified and nobly motivated people.
Lawmakers - Inter-American Foundation
House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing on Inter-American Foundation. Representative Gerry Studds (D - Massachusetts) says, the finest thing we ever did in this hemisphere was the Inter-American Foundation and it was working magnificently. And that for God s sake, I think the Chairman will agree with me, the one thing we were always cautioned to do is don t fiddle with it.
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Linda Wertheimer closes segment. Congress has considered cutting off funding as punishment.