Word: aid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sang at benefit concerts in Paris and Washington. Abie Nathan, known for his efforts on behalf of Arab-Jewish amity, sent food packages from Thailand. While governments debated how to cope with Cambodia's crisis, official agencies, religious and private organizations, and concerned individuals were at work to aid the catastrophe's victims...
...ICRC) and the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). Working jointly, along with such related U.N. agencies as the Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Program, the two groups have so far sent 2,500 tons of food and supplies into Cambodia and undisclosed amounts of aid to refugee camps that they operate in Thailand. As the principal agencies through which governmental contributions are funneled into Cambodia, ICRC and UNICEF have already received pledges totaling $137 million, well above the $111.3 million they estimate is necessary to prevent mass starvation over the next six months. These groups...
Backed by liberal academics and some members of the Roman Catholic clergy, the junta had announced a crash program of political reform. Though it quickly won support and a pledge of "significant aid" from the U.S., the five-man junta may fall apart before the program is carried out. Rumors of a countercoup by right-wing military officers swept through the capital last week, together with reports that the oligarchy was prepared to pay as much as $20 million to any group that could restore the country to military control...
Carter decides to aid Morocco...
Part of Lynch's mission to the U.S. is to discourage Irish Americans from misguided sentimentality toward the I.R.A. Though contributions have been cut in half since 1976, U.S. aid to the I.R.A. still amounts to about $350,000 a year, and it can come in very lethal forms. Late last week a sealed container of armaments from the U.S. was seized in Dublin harbor. The shipment included M60 machine guns, Armalite rifles (snipers' weapons) and 40,000 rounds of ammunition. Another concern is moral backing of the I.R.A. by some U.S. politicians, whom Lynch accuses of hobbling...