Word: aid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the aid, refugees are discovering that assimilation is far from automatic. There are the usual problems of language and loneliness. The months and often years spent in the crowded squalor of the resettlement camps have taken their toll: malnutrition is widespread, and cases of tuberculosis are found...
...words of one eyewitness, and hurled all seven occupants into the water. Nearby fishermen raced to the rescue. Still breathing, Lord Mountbatten was pulled into one of the boats. He died, his legs nearly blown off, almost immediately. Two Belfast doctors on holiday hastily set up a makeshift aid station on the wharf, using old doors for stretchers, broken broomsticks for splints and ripped-up sheets to bind up wounds until ambulances arrived to rush the victims to Sligo General Hospital. Both Mountbatten's grandson Nicholas and the Maxwell youth had been killed in the blast. After a nightlong...
...Israelis are continuing to use American-supplied equipment in violation of a previous agreement with the U.S. But the State Department was not particularly anxious to pursue that point just now. A spokesman emphasized that the Administration was not contemplating a reduction in the $2.7 billion in military aid already committed to Israel as a way to browbeat Jerusalem into ceasing its artillery attacks in Lebanon. Said one State Department official: "We don't want to be the ones to carry an arms reduction proposal up to Capitol Hill...
...Roman Catholic priest for 21 years, Pagano insisted he was innocent, but failed a lie detector test. Loyal parishioners rushed to his aid and started a legal defense fund. Although Pagano had a reputation as an inspiring preacher and a dedicated community servant, he had an unorthodox life-style for a priest. While most priests reside in a rectory, Pagano lives in his own $50,000 home with a widow who he says is his half sister. He once ran a professional counseling business on the side until the church asked him to stop charging for his services. The priest...
...junta has clung to its program of middle-of-the-road socialism not only to reassure jittery businessmen, but also to assuage potential sources of foreign aid, who are concerned about the new regime's leftist cast. Nicaragua's leaders know that they need help to recover from the Somoza dynasty's 46 years of brutality and neglect. More than 45% of Nicaragua's people are illiterate. At least 500,000 persons driven from their homes by Somoza's fierce counterattack must be resettled. Food is in such short supply that long lines form wherever...