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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Steven Lee Myers / The Bulletin
October 9, 2011
WASHINGTON — America’s budget crisis at home is forcing the first significant cuts in overseas aid in nearly two decades, a retrenchment that officials and advocates say reflects the country’s diminishing ability to influence the world.
As lawmakers scramble to trim the swelling national debt,....