DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE Desert Locust And Grasshopper Eradication: Conceived of and authored extensive language in the reports accompanying the FY 1989, FY 1990 and FY 1991 Senate Foreign Operations Appropriation Acts directing USAID to mount a comprehensive review of its pest control policies and to undertake specific reforms. Initiated a two year study and report by the Office of Technology Assessment entitled: "A Plague of Locusts," on the medium and long-term consequences of insect infestation in Africa on development. Authored language in the FY 1990 and FY 1991 committee reports directing that USAID take a number of steps to build an institutional capacity for Integrated Pest Management (IPM), including the creation of a pest management task force. These initiatives led to the establishment of a USAID IPM program. USAID-Exchange Rates: Authored Senate report language accompanying the FY 1990 Foreign Operations Appropriation Act expressing concern that U.S. educational and humanitarian programs in China are forced to exchange currency at an official rate 30 percent higher than the local rate. The Committee urges the Administration to take up this issue with the Chinese Government, which should have an interest in restoring the value of U.S. development assistance to these financially hard-pressed programs. FY 1991 Individual Project Assistance: Authored Senate report language to accompany the FY 1991 Foreign Operations Appropriation Act promoting the work of the following organizations: The Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center, The Children's Medical Center of Israel, Jerusalem Elwyn (assisting the disabled), and Givat Haviva Institute (promoting better understanding between Jews and Arabs in Israel). OICD-USAID Cooperation: Authored Senate report language accompanying the FY 1990 Foreign Operations Appropriation Act urging USAID to maintain its funding and cooperative relationship in training and technical assistance with the Office of International Cooperation and Development at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. FY 1993 Individual Project Assistance: Authored Senate report language to accompany the FY 1991 Foreign Operations Appropriation Act promoting the work of the following organizations: Beirut University College, Life International (a private medical hospital ship), The Johns Hopkins University Bologna and Nanjing Centers, Project ORBIS, U.S. Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI), Board On Science and Technology for International Development (BOSTID), Jerusalem Elwyn, Helping Hand (in the delivery of humanitarian assistance in the former Soviet Union), Binational Agricultural Research and Development (BARD) Foundation, USAID Cooperative Applied Science and Technology Program (CAST). Global Water Initiatives: Authored Senate report language to accompany the FY 1993 Foreign Operations Appropriation Act recommending that USAID and the Department of State review a series of innovate proposal s to divert water from Turkey to the Middle East as a means for advancing the peace and promoting economic prosperity in the region.