Cost is high for largesse

Maybe Congressman William Delahunt could arrange for Somalia to send discounted beef, the desperately poor African country's leading export. Its poor neighbor, Ethiopia, could help out by sending cheap coffee. And Afghanistan could send heroin. (But, then, it already is.) (Full article: 725 words)

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