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AID FLOWS

West Germany Resumes Aid to Syria

West Germany has decided to unfreeze DM146mn ($76mn) of annual economic aid to Syria because of efforts by Damascus "to distance itself from terrorism," according to a statement issued by a West German Foreign Ministry official on 13 July. The aid freeze, enacted last November, followed accusations that Syria was involved in a bomb attack on a West Berlin bar. Meanwhile, EEC Foreign Ministers agreed on 15...