Some officials and allies on Capitol Hill believe the time has come for a modified gloves-off approach to Khartoum. Without much debate, Congress approved an amendment this past fall as part of a budget bill that would give the administration the option of providing food aid directly to the rebels, thus potentially shifting the power balance in their favor. The U.N. World Food Program said direct food aid to the rebels would threaten Operation Lifeline Sudan-and, thereby, jeopardize the lives of countless Sudanese. Brownback has taken the lead on Capitol Hill in highlighting the alleged slave trade in Sudan. After the slaves are liberated from northern Sudan, Christian Solidarity generally returns them to their homes in the south.
Some critics maintain that the policy only encourages slave trafficking.
That includes military offensives against innocent civilians. George Gedda is the Associated Press correspondent at the State Department. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Venezuela from 1962 to 1964. In eight years of reporting from Africa for the Christian Science Monitor, Robert Press and his wife, photographer Betty Press, learned that some children will endure many hardships to learn. WorldView Magazine National Peace Corps Association.