The United States is changing its old ways of giving aid to Africa. Money will now flow to a few favored countries. For the rest, in the main, it will be slowly cut off. No official announcement has been made of the new policy. But bits and snatches have been revealed by State Department and Agency for International Development (AID) officials in private conversation and public speeches. The President's recent budget message to Congress had a passing reference to the new policy. The details can now be pieced together. Besides concentrating on a few countries, the United States will try to put some of its aid into regional economic projects that could help unify areas of the splintered continent. There also will be an attempt to channel some American aid through international organizations like the African Development Bank. To implement the new policy, the United States will spend less money than before...

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