Word: aid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end, Washington recognized Bazargan's new provisional government. The prompt way in which Khomeini forces came to the aid of the embattled embassy reassured the Carter Administration that Bazargan and the Ayatullah want to build friendly relations with the U.S. Washington was also impressed by the new government's help in arranging the airlift of the 5,000 to 7,000 Americans left in Iran. The U.S. had hoped that two chartered Pan Am jets could handle the exodus. In case of a real emergency, Washington had secured the permission of Turkey to allow...
...intelligence analysts believe that last week's attack on the American embassy, as well as a raid on the Moroccan embassy, was the work of a fedayeen splinter group called the Cherikhaye Fedaye Khalq (People's Sacrifice Guerrillas). This group is believed to have received training and aid over the years from Libya and radical Palestinians. Though Marxist in ideology, it is not considered necessarily to be under the control of Moscow or Iran's Tudeh (Communist) party...
...Soviet Union has been glad to offer $1.8 billion in economic aid over the past decade as part of its courtship aimed at loosening Turkey's ties with NATO. However, despite friendly recent gestures of his own toward Moscow, Ecevit is considered a confirmed Westerner who has no intention of allowing Turkey to drift into neutralism...
Britain has provided the island with aid to shore up the faltering economy which is entirely dependent on the export of bananas and has promised an independence gift of $20 million as well...
Increased financial aid will probably counteract part of the cost increase, he said. "About 40 per cent of our students receive some form of aid, and some of these students may need extra help to cope with the extra charges," Hartley said...