The Legislature also promised to keep $24 million in state money in reserve to finance aid if federal money falls short.

This week, Mr. Miyazawa saw the collapse of a separate plan, a tax to finance foreign aid.

Throughout the 1950s Washington sustained a balance of payments deficit to finance loans, aid, and troops for allied regimes.

However, two weeks ago the Governor, a Republican, proposed repealing a state income tax deduction to finance increased aid to cities and towns.

Ultimately, Mr. North and his colleagues used some of the proceeds from the arms sales to finance aid and arms for the Nicaraguan rebels.

The French and Japanese are also pushing a world financial transaction tax that would finance aid, but given American opposition it is likely stillborn.

The Legal Services Corporation was established by Congress in 1974 to finance legal aid for poor people in civil cases.

Given the heavy funding of the EU's common agricultural policy from the budget, the sector itself should be able to finance aid to farmers hit by natural disasters.

I fully agree with him that the Community as a whole should finance aid for the deprived, and that the food should come exclusively from EU countries.

The European Commission has, of course, allocated and financed humanitarian aid to help the more vulnerable sections of the Angolan population in various areas.