Bereuter promotes development plan
By Jerry Guenther
Staff Reporter
President George Bush’s ad
ministration is taking steps to
implement its “kinder and gentler
philosophy’’ by promoting a pro
gram that takes the debts of devel
oping countries and uses them to
promote worthwhile projects, Rep.
Doug Bcrcuter said Friday.
Bercutcr, R-Neb., said that
under a new dcbt-for-devclopment
concept, host nations such as the
United States are giving the debts
of developing countries to chari
table organizations.
The charitable organizations
then use the loans from the host
countries to promote economic
development within the develop
ing country, he said.
Bcrcuter, who spoke on U.S.
foreign policy to about 40 people
at the Regency Suite of the Ne
braska Union, said debt servicing
obligations of underdeveloped
countries absorb many of the re
sources available to debtor coun
tries.
Because often times debtor
countries default on their loans,
Bercutcr said, solutions arc needed
to assist developing countries with
debt reduction.
For example, Bercutcr said, the
Bank of the Midlands iathc United
Kingdom loaned $800,000 to Su
dan. When the loan became due,
Bercutcr said, Sudan had “no
chance” of repaying the debt.
Instead of writing the debt off,
the Bank of the Midlands gave the
loan to UNICEF, he said, and al
lowed Sudan to pay the debt off
with its own currency instead of
silver.
UNICEF then used the money
to drill water wells in Sudan, he
said.
Bercutcr said that under the
dcbi-for-dcvclopmcnt concept,
the U.S. government may forgive
loans to such countries as Costa
Rica, Ecuador and Brazil.
Those nations would be re
quired to use the debt to set up such
projects as national parks to pro
tect rain forests, he said.
Bercutcr said the Internal Reve
nue Service will give tax breaks to
U.S. banks that give their loans to
less developed countries for chari
table works.
“It’s getting a lot of attention
now,” he said.
During the Bush’s first 100
days in office, Bereuter said, the
president has taken a “let’s stop
and look’’ foreign policy altitude,
resulting in media criticism for
lack of an overall policy goal.
But, Bereuter said, part of the
problem has been that Bush’s
political appointments have been
slowed by FBI checks and the
review process on his nomina
tions.
Bereuter said he personally is
opposed to enacting economic
sanctions against Panama and
South Africa.
“Economic sanctions almost
always end up hurting us (the
U.S.),” he said.
If the United States were to
eliminate its trade with South Af
rica, Bereuter said, West Ger
many, Japan and the United King
dom would “pick up the slack”
from such U.S. trade elimination.
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