FrontLines: Octobers Past
FrontLines - October 2009
1969: FrontLines reported on an agreement between the Agency, the Goodyear Co., and the Indian government to jointly finance the $12 million tire manufacturing facility in Ballabgarg, India. In the same issue, FrontLines noted a speech by then-USAID Administrator John A. Hannah urging Congress to support the creation of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation "to attract American private resources and know-how to the challenge of development."
1979: In a full-page article, FrontLines reported that "malaria makes a comeback." Saying that the pesticide DDT offered a chance to wipe out malaria "once and for all," Edgar Smith, a USAID health officer, said that "we were too successful" and that, as a result, "people let down their guard and became complacent.
They thought malaria wasn’t a problem anymore. Funding malaria control and training programs lost priority."
1989: In a featured article, FrontLines noted that an "emerging
information technology" could make access to information in the developing world much easier and quicker. The article invited readers to come to the Agency’s Development Information Center to test the newly adopted "optical disks" or CD-ROMs.
1999: Five decades of assistance
to Jordan was highlighted in a full-page FrontLines article. The U.S.-Jordanian celebration featured a month-long exhibit of photographs and artifacts covering
50 years of partnership.
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