Agency For International Development

President Clinton has nominated Brian Atwood, a former State Department assistant secretary, to be head of the Agency for International Development.

WASHINGTON - When Bolivian President Evo Morales expelled the U.S. Agency for International Development from his impoverished country last week, he complained that Washington "still has a mentality of domination and submission" in the region. It was a familiar charge for the State Department's principal foreign aid agency. In the last two years, it has been booted out of Russia, snubbed in Egypt and declared unwelcome by a bloc of left-leaning Latin American countries. USAID "threatens our sovereignty and stability," the eight-nation Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas fumed in June in a resolution that accused the United States of political interference, conspiracy and "looting our natural resources.

President Bush will nominate C. Anson Franklin, an Energy Department official, as an assistant administrator of the Agency for International Development, the White House said. Franklin, 42, will become AID's assistant administrator for external affairs.

The Cuban government has arrested a U.S. contractor working for the United States Agency for International Development who was distributing cellphones and laptop computers to Cuban activists, State Department officials and congressional sources said Saturday. The contractor, who has not been identified because of federal privacy rules, works for Development Alternatives Inc., based in Bethesda, Md. Jim Boomgard, company president and chief executive, said in a statement that his firm was awarded a government contract last year to help USAID "strengthen civil society in support of just and democratic governance in Cuba."

President Reagan will nominate Carol C. Adelman, a Washington consultant, to be assistant administrator of the Agency for International Development for Asia and the Near East, the White House announced Monday. Adelman, 41, has been vice president of the Consultative Group on Development. She would succeed Charles W. Greenleaf Jr.

WASHINGTON, D.C. * Wendy Chamberlin, who resigned her ambassadorship to Pakistan amid security concerns, has a new posting at the U.S. Agency for International Development. President Bush tapped Chamberlin to be assistant administrator of USAID's bureau for Asia and the Near East, which oversees U.S. development projects in those regions.

President Reagan on Wednesday announced his intention to appoint M. Alan Woods to head the Agency for International Development. Woods, 41, would succeed M. Peter McPherson, whom Reagan has nominated to succeed Richard G. Darman as a deputy Treasury secretary.

Ronald W. Roskens, administrator of the Agency for International Development, announced Wednesday that he is resigning to become president of Action International. The new organization is designed to promote the efforts of a group of 35 former heads of state who work for positive change on the international scene.

The U.S. Agency for International Development cannot account for at least $107 million worth of African currencies that should have been available for aid projects, according to an audit by the agency's inspector general. The figure is based on an audit of 10 of the 35 African countries where the independent government agency works. The audit reports, sent to Congress, made no charge of criminal responsibility. One said that auditors could not determine what happened to the money.

M. Alan Woods, administrator of the Agency for International Development in the Reagan and Bush administrations and a strong advocate of linking U.S. assistance to economic reform, died Thursday after a yearlong struggle with cancer. Woods, 43, was a strong proponent of free market economics who served in the U.S. trade representative's office before taking over the helm at the Agency for International Development in November, 1987. He was one of the few holdovers from the Reagan Administration to continue a sub-Cabinet job under President Bush.

Fighting the war in Iraq turned out to be easier than expected. Getting peace off the ground has proven a bit harder. The U.S. Agency for International Development says the $600-million contract to start the rebuilding could be awarded any moment now, which is what it has been suggesting for three weeks. But USAID's attempt to make the process both secret and ultra-quick has drawn suspicion, criticism and investigations. Sen.

The U.S. Agency for International Development is expected to rely almost exclusively on for-profit corporations to rebuild Iraq's social institutions, angering nonprofit organizations that claim they can do the work more effectively. Several hundred million dollars are at stake in three development contracts, covering health care, education and governance, that are expected to soon be awarded by USAID.

WASHINGTON, D.C. * Wendy Chamberlin, who resigned her ambassadorship to Pakistan amid security concerns, has a new posting at the U.S. Agency for International Development. President Bush tapped Chamberlin to be assistant administrator of USAID's bureau for Asia and the Near East, which oversees U.S. development projects in those regions.

The U.S. Agency for International Development announced Thursday a new initiative aimed at controlling the global emergence of lethal infectious diseases, saying it will develop programs in targeted countries to fight the escalating health threats posed by bacterial resistance, tuberculosis and malaria. The agency also said it will work with other health agencies worldwide to better monitor and respond to new outbreaks of diseases before they get out of hand.

Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) neared victory Thursday in a long-running vendetta against the U.S. foreign policy establishment when Senate and House negotiators reached agreement on a compromise bill to abolish the Agency for International Development, the U.S. Information Agency and the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Helms said the bill would save $1.

U.S. Group Secures Debt Swap From U.S. Bank: Conservation International announced that it had secured a debt-for-nature swap from a U.S. bank, Signet Bank. Marianne Guerin-McManus, the group's conservation finance director, said that Conservation International had used $246,000 from the U.S. Agency for International Development to buy back close to half a million dollars of Mexican debt held in French francs by Signet Bank.

Clinton Names Choices for OSHA, AID: President Clinton said he will nominate Joseph Dear, former director of Washington state's Department of Labor and Industries, to be administrator of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. If confirmed by the Senate, Dear will become assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health. Clinton also named Carol Lancaster as his choice for deputy administrator of the Agency for International Development.

The Clinton administration was chastised Thursday by Democrats as well as Republicans for spending valuable foreign aid dollars on frivolous projects in South Africa, such as a $300,000 grant for hair care training. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), a longtime critic of U.S. assistance to South Africa, declared the entire program to be "a multimillion-dollar fiasco." And even strong supporters of the program, such as Sens. Nancy Landon Kassebaum (R-Kan.

In the budget now being haggled over in Congress for the U.S. Agency for International Development, about $400 million is earmarked for "child survival." But there may be less to this than meets the eye. This sum is supposed to pay for vitamin A supplements, promotion of breast-feeding, efforts to control deadly diarrhea and other U.S.-assisted international programs designed to cut down on child sickness and mortality worldwide.