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Defense support, which is the type of economic aid designed to permit certain nations to support larger defense forces than they woud be able to on their own resources, would cost $724 million next year.more than half ,of it going to Korea, Taiwan (Formosa) and'Vietnam, “which have the common characteristics that they are divided countries facing superior Communist forces on their borders.”
Special assistance, costing $268 million, “will enable us, for example, to continue aid to the young nations of Morocco, Libya and Tunisia, to strengthen the stability -of Jordan and the Middle East, to combat the encroachment of Communist influences in Afghanistan, and to undergird the economil's of Bolivia and Haiti.
'Hie education and training of '.Vi cans will require substantial sums, Mr. Eisenhower predicted:
“The request for appropriations for special8- assistance includes an amount of $20 million for a special program* to be instituted for the improvement of education and raining in Africa south of the Sahara. with particular emphasis to
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