
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, April 6, 1990                   TAG: 9004060459
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: A11   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

PART OF FARM BILL REVAMPS FOOD AID

The Senate Agriculture Committee endorsed legislation Thursday that would revamp the way the United States distributes food aid to poor countries.

The bill, endorsed on a voice vote, will become the foreign trade portion of the 1990 farm bill, which will go to the Senate floor later this year.

Its most important changes would reduce bureaucratic activities in providing aid; give instead of sell food to the poorest countries; start a marketing program to sell U.S. products to developing nations, and establish a "food for freedom" program to make it easier for the president to give food to emerging democracies. - Associated Press

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