International Planned Parenthood, the driving force behind repeal of abortion laws in Catholic countries like the pope's Poland and the Philippines, as well as in Moslem nations. Both bills are now in a conference committee, where House and Senate versions have to be reconciled. Even better news, however, is at hand. For once, House Republicans have the moral and political high ground in a showdown battle that can rally their dispirited party. For, of all federal programs, none has fewer friends than foreign aid.
Nobody is for it, except the beneficiaries and their peanut galleries.
Let Clinton hold as many press conferences as he wishes to demand a foreign aid bill that promotes abortion and sends a billion bucks to the U.N. bureaucrat who succeeded Boutros Boutros-Ghali. The House stand in cutting out the IMF money is also critical. For the IMF and World Bank are replacing direct foreign aid as the back door for the global burglars who are looting America for the benefit of foreign, and even hostile, regimes. It is estimated that 7 percent of outstanding World Bank loans have gone to a Beijing regime that uses its hard currency to buy Russian missiles to target American warships. Beijing's World Bank buck-raking is the icing on the cake for a crowd already rolling in cash, thanks to its privileged trade status voted annually by big business conservatives.